http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/tag/pulitzerTuesday, September 29, 2009
The Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March, 1965
From Duke University Library
James Karales Photographs 1956-1969
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Robert Roberson Case
History Link
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7065
PBS Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html#5
EBSCOhost
http://www.infohio.org/
Click on Core Collection
Click on EBSCOhost
Click on Student Research Center
Search Pastor Robert Roberson Wenatchee
Use "More Like This" link to find more results.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7065
PBS Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html#5
EBSCOhost
http://www.infohio.org/
Click on Core Collection
Click on EBSCOhost
Click on Student Research Center
Search Pastor Robert Roberson Wenatchee
Use "More Like This" link to find more results.
Joseph McCarthy
American History Database - see Ms. Miller for log on information
www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com
Search for McCarthy, Jopseph or McCarthy hearings
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html
McCarthyism
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm
www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com
Search for McCarthy, Jopseph or McCarthy hearings
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html
McCarthyism
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm
Japanese Internment Camps
The Children of the Camps
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/
Virtual Museum of the Ciity of San Francisco - Internment of San Francisco Japanese
http://www.sfmuseum.net/war/evactxt.html
American History Database - see Ms. Miller for password
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Do a search for Japanese internment camps
Japanese Internment Camps and their Effects
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312008/Enter.html
Exploring Japanese American Internment
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment/
UW Libraries - Camp Harmony Exhibit
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/
Virtual Museum of the Ciity of San Francisco - Internment of San Francisco Japanese
http://www.sfmuseum.net/war/evactxt.html
American History Database - see Ms. Miller for password
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Do a search for Japanese internment camps
Japanese Internment Camps and their Effects
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312008/Enter.html
Exploring Japanese American Internment
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment/
UW Libraries - Camp Harmony Exhibit
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Museum
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
Witchcraft Hysteria - Ask the Expert
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/digest.html
Salem Witch Trials Archive
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
American History Database - see Ms. Miller for password
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Do a search for Salem Witchcraft Trials
INFOhio - World Book Web
http://www.infohio.org/
Click on Core Collection
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on World Book Advanced
Do a search for Salem Witchcraft Trials
Famous American Trials - Salem Witch Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
Salem Witch Trials - The World Beyond the Hysteria
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
Witchcraft Hysteria - Ask the Expert
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/digest.html
Salem Witch Trials Archive
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
American History Database - see Ms. Miller for password
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Do a search for Salem Witchcraft Trials
INFOhio - World Book Web
http://www.infohio.org/
Click on Core Collection
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on World Book Advanced
Do a search for Salem Witchcraft Trials
Famous American Trials - Salem Witch Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
Salem Witch Trials - The World Beyond the Hysteria
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
Thursday, May 21, 2009
1st Quarter Book Club - Sunrise over Fallujah
Kirkus Review starred (April 1, 2008)
In 2003, in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, young Robin Perry already wonders about "an enemy we can't identify and friends we're not sure about." Myers dedicates this novel to the men and women who serve in the United States Armed Services and to their families, and he offers a powerful study of the strange war they have been sent to fight, where confusion and randomness rule. Why are they fighting? Whom are they fighting? When will they be hit next? Narrated by Robin, nephew of Richie Perry, the main character of the landmark Fallen Angels (1988), this companion expertly evokes the beauty of Iraq and the ugliness of war. Given the paucity of works on this war, this is an important volume, covering much ground and offering much insight. Robin's eventual understanding that his experience was not about winning or losing the war but about "reaching for the highest idea of life" makes this a worthy successor to Myers's Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic.
In 2003, in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, young Robin Perry already wonders about "an enemy we can't identify and friends we're not sure about." Myers dedicates this novel to the men and women who serve in the United States Armed Services and to their families, and he offers a powerful study of the strange war they have been sent to fight, where confusion and randomness rule. Why are they fighting? Whom are they fighting? When will they be hit next? Narrated by Robin, nephew of Richie Perry, the main character of the landmark Fallen Angels (1988), this companion expertly evokes the beauty of Iraq and the ugliness of war. Given the paucity of works on this war, this is an important volume, covering much ground and offering much insight. Robin's eventual understanding that his experience was not about winning or losing the war but about "reaching for the highest idea of life" makes this a worthy successor to Myers's Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic.
2nd Quarter Book Club - Thirteen Reasons Why
Publishers Weekly (October 8, 2007)
This uncommonly polished debut opens on a riveting scenario: 13 teenagers in a small town have each been designated to listen, in secret, to a box of audiotapes recorded by their classmate Hannah and mailed on the very day she commits suicide. "I'm about to tell you the story of my life," she says. "More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why." Clay, the narrator, receives the tapes a few weeks after the suicide (each listener must send the box to the next, and Hannah has built in a plan to make sure her posthumous directions are followed), and his initial shock turns to horror as he hears the dead girl implicate his friends and acquaintances in various acts of callousness, cruelty or crime. Asher expertly paces the narrative, splicing Hannah's tale with Clay's mounting anxiety and fear. Just what has he done? Readers won't be able to pull themselves away until that question gets answered-no matter that the premise is contrived and the plot details can be implausible. The author gets all the characters right, from the popular girl who wants to insure her status to the boy who rapes an unconscious girl at a party where the liquor flows too freely, and the veneer of authenticity suffices to hide the story's flaws. Asher knows how to entertain an audience; this book will leave readers eager to see what he does next.
This uncommonly polished debut opens on a riveting scenario: 13 teenagers in a small town have each been designated to listen, in secret, to a box of audiotapes recorded by their classmate Hannah and mailed on the very day she commits suicide. "I'm about to tell you the story of my life," she says. "More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why." Clay, the narrator, receives the tapes a few weeks after the suicide (each listener must send the box to the next, and Hannah has built in a plan to make sure her posthumous directions are followed), and his initial shock turns to horror as he hears the dead girl implicate his friends and acquaintances in various acts of callousness, cruelty or crime. Asher expertly paces the narrative, splicing Hannah's tale with Clay's mounting anxiety and fear. Just what has he done? Readers won't be able to pull themselves away until that question gets answered-no matter that the premise is contrived and the plot details can be implausible. The author gets all the characters right, from the popular girl who wants to insure her status to the boy who rapes an unconscious girl at a party where the liquor flows too freely, and the veneer of authenticity suffices to hide the story's flaws. Asher knows how to entertain an audience; this book will leave readers eager to see what he does next.
3rd Quarter Book Club - Wintergirls
Kirkus Review starred (February 1, 2009)
Neither therapy nor threats nor her ex-best friend's death can turn Lia away from her habits of cutting and self-starvation. In broken, symbolic and gut-wrenching prose, Lia narrates her hopeless story of the destructive behaviors that control her every action and thought. She lives for both the thrill and the crash of not eating, and any progress she may have made toward normal eating is erased when her former best friend Cassie dies alone in a hotel room. The trauma of Cassie's death coupled with Lia's strained relationship with her parents and stepmother makes her tighten her focus on not eating as she slides into a world of starvation-induced hallucinations. Uncontrollable self-accusations ("Stupid/ugly/stupid/bitch/stupid/fat") and compulsive calorie counts punctuate her claustrophobic account, which she edits chillingly to control her world. Anderson perfectly captures the isolation and motivations of the anorexic without ever suggesting that depression and eating disorders are simply things to "get over." Due to the author's and the subject's popularity, this should be a much-discussed book, which rises far above the standard problem novel.
Neither therapy nor threats nor her ex-best friend's death can turn Lia away from her habits of cutting and self-starvation. In broken, symbolic and gut-wrenching prose, Lia narrates her hopeless story of the destructive behaviors that control her every action and thought. She lives for both the thrill and the crash of not eating, and any progress she may have made toward normal eating is erased when her former best friend Cassie dies alone in a hotel room. The trauma of Cassie's death coupled with Lia's strained relationship with her parents and stepmother makes her tighten her focus on not eating as she slides into a world of starvation-induced hallucinations. Uncontrollable self-accusations ("Stupid/ugly/stupid/bitch/stupid/fat") and compulsive calorie counts punctuate her claustrophobic account, which she edits chillingly to control her world. Anderson perfectly captures the isolation and motivations of the anorexic without ever suggesting that depression and eating disorders are simply things to "get over." Due to the author's and the subject's popularity, this should be a much-discussed book, which rises far above the standard problem novel.
4th Quarter Book Club Book - The Hunger Games
Horn Book (September/October, 2008)
Survivor meets "The Lottery" as the author of the popular Underland Chronicles returns with what promises to be an even better series. The United States is no more, and the new Capitol, high in the Rocky Mountains, requires each district to send two teenagers, a boy and a girl, to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a reality show from which only one of the twenty-four participants will emerge victorious -- and alive. When her younger sister is chosen by lottery to represent their district, Katniss volunteers to go in her stead, while Peeta, who secretly harbors a crush on Katniss, is the boy selected to join her. A fierce, resourceful competitor who wins the respect of the other participants and the viewing public, Katniss also displays great compassion and vulnerability through her first-person narration. The plot is front and center here -- the twists and turns are addictive, particularly when the romantic subplot ups the ante -- yet the Capitol's oppression and exploitation of the districts always simmers just below the surface, waiting to be more fully explored in future volumes. Collins has written a compulsively readable blend of science fiction, survival story, unlikely romance, and social commentary.
Survivor meets "The Lottery" as the author of the popular Underland Chronicles returns with what promises to be an even better series. The United States is no more, and the new Capitol, high in the Rocky Mountains, requires each district to send two teenagers, a boy and a girl, to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a reality show from which only one of the twenty-four participants will emerge victorious -- and alive. When her younger sister is chosen by lottery to represent their district, Katniss volunteers to go in her stead, while Peeta, who secretly harbors a crush on Katniss, is the boy selected to join her. A fierce, resourceful competitor who wins the respect of the other participants and the viewing public, Katniss also displays great compassion and vulnerability through her first-person narration. The plot is front and center here -- the twists and turns are addictive, particularly when the romantic subplot ups the ante -- yet the Capitol's oppression and exploitation of the districts always simmers just below the surface, waiting to be more fully explored in future volumes. Collins has written a compulsively readable blend of science fiction, survival story, unlikely romance, and social commentary.
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