cool tool for history

The New York Times has a cool tool for exploring immigration!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?emc=eta3

Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm

Sorry for the long hiatus -- apparrently it's a lot harder to think about radical pedagogy when you're teaching! :P

african americans in US history

http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/

The National Archives has a massively awesome listing of resources related to African American history. This listing includes images (there's a great series on African Americans in WWII here:

http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/index.html )

and documents related to Amistad (here:

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad/index.html )

I'm trying to find one related to US Latino studies, but the site's awkward to navigate. I have no idea how I found this! :P