Maps of United States - Complete Maps. Legends of America - Home Page. Black History Pages. The Institute for Southern Studies - A Voice for a Better South. Weirdus.com. Revolutionary War Soldiers Genealogy. Legends of America - American History, People, Legends, Old West, Travel Destinations, and Lots More. For the Nostaligic and Historic Minded. 14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all.
Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation. American Forum - Fast-Food History. Activity #1: Where Did Our Food Originate? Introduction Most foods were domesticated in prehistoric times by Stone Age peoples. This activity helps students gain an understanding of point of origin and domestication, as well as an understanding of the debt that we owe to our early ancestors.
Objective To understand the concepts of point of origin and domestication. To understand that the food we eat originated in other places and times. Materials A cheeseburger and a cola (or other foods) purchased from a local fast-food chain; a map of the world; access to an encyclopedia (in the class, school library, on-line or at home); you may wish to purchase or request that your school library acquire Reay Tannahill' s Food in History (New York: Crown, 1988).
Procedures Place the food on your desk. Ask students to list the components that go into making cheeseburgers and colas. Ask students to identify the geographic area of origin or domestication of each ingredient. Suggestions for Further Objectives. Maps of United States - Complete Maps. Black History Pages. Voices of History - Old Time Radio Shows - OTR. Civil Rights Oral History Collection. The Collection: In February of 2001, the Spokesman-Review produced a month long series of articles on black history titled "Through Spokane's Eyes Moments in Black History," focusing in particular on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As part of that series, Rebecca Nappi conducted a series of interviews with individuals with ties to both the civil rights movement and to Spokane. The guide to this collection may now be found in the Manuscripts section of MASC under the number Cage 683.
The Oral Histories: Jerrelene Williamson relates her sense of the civil rights movement in Spokane to events in Alabama. Searching the Database: Entering search terms in the box located at the top of the page will search across all of the database fields. Creating the Database: Mark O'English added RM files to the CONTENTdm database, using URLs pointing to a RealSystem Server, created the descriptive records, and provided subject and genre terms. Scholar Essays: Boardinghouses. In the summer of 1900 a boardinghouse for artists began operation in the quiet shoreline town of Old Lyme, Connecticut. For the next two decades Miss Florence Griswold’s house on Main Street was home to one of the most famous art colonies in America and critical to the development of American Impressionism.
This is a special story, but boardinghouses, where people paid to live and eat with others, once affected the lives of many Americans. The boardinghouse era, from about 1875 to 1920, came into being with the burgeoning of cities. By 1910 as many as one-third to one-half of urban Americans had been boarders at some time or lived in a home that had boarders. Young people who left farms and villages behind, and even newlyweds and families, sought inexpensive places to stay, where they could be guided in the ways of the city and sheltered from undesirable influences. To meet this need, widowed or married women who had to earn money offered space in their homes. Eventually it had failed. The Institute for Southern Studies | Search the 1940 Census - 1940 Census. Search the 1940 Census - 1940 Census.
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