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Washing Away The 3 -year -old New Orleans Times Picayune series on the threats New Orleans face

American RadioWorks Radio documentaries. Thoughtful and provocative documentaries about various issues dealing with American history, culture and society.

The Meaning of Food.  PBS site exploring culture through food.

The History Explorer Developed by the the National Museum of American History using multimedia and interactive tools to allow the viewer to familiarize himself/herself with important aspects of American history and culture.

Harlem History  Columbia University website exploring one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods

A Lion's Trial  PBS site on the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Traces the Zulu hit song from South  Africa in the 1920s to Brooklyn in and back, asking why the black composer Linda died penniless - while American artists made millions off his music.

The Monkey Trial  Very interesting and extensive PBS site about the the famous Scopes Trial in Tennessee in 1925  which involved the right to teach evolution theory. 

The African-American Migration Experience The Schomberg Center for  Research in Black Culture (New Exhibit Feb. 2005)

Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery . In conjunction with the United Nations resolution designating 2004 as the
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition, New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents this Web exhibit.

Meatrix Intelligent cartoon on the evils of factory farming.

WebQuest homepage. Templates, examples guides etc. Very extensive.

PBS series on the American Family. Here a Latino family living in East LA.

The Living Room Candidate_ Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004. Online exhibition of presidential campaigns since 1952.

In Africa An Exodus of Nurses  New York Tmes article on the shortage of nurses in Africa.

The American Presidency Very extensive site created by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

The Pill  PBS American Experience Series.  Explores some of the issues surrounding the creation of the pill and the many different ways in which it transformed the lives of women and American culture more broadly

Levitttowns Building the Suburban Dream.

PBS Series on New Immigrants  Meet the New Americans.

Wired for Books. Readings and lectures of noted writers, Ohio University.

You may e.g. want to hear Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" read aloud, or perhaps the poetry og Emily Dickinson? Or you may like to hear Daniel Keys (author of Flowers for Algernon) talk about his  life as a writer, or listen to a lecture on  the African American Oral Tradition?

These and many more interesting features may be found on Ohio University's Wired for Books website.

 

Danish

Undervisningmateriale til Nicolai Arcels film Kongekabalen: Det danske filminstitut og Filmens hjemmeside

Enkel WebQuest om Dansk Guldalder

Thelma and Louise -en feministisk western. Anmeldelse

 

 

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