The original article announcing the new edition by Alan Gribben
NCTE Response
Teaching Racially Sensitive Literature: A Teacher’s Guide
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1118/Chadwick.pdf
Other Resources:
Lesson: The Trial of Mark Twain (for promoting racism in Huck Finn) http://www.uhigh.ilstu.edu/labschool/ep/vol3/twain.html
PBS- Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/index.html
American Slave Narratives: an online anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
Reviews of the book at the time it was published
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucrevhp.html
Good short interview article from PBS
Avalon Project and Civil Rights Act
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/civil_rights_1964.asp
www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/montbus.html
Feline reactions to bearded men
http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
(may not be able to hyperlink to this one- may need to copy and paste into address bar)
Banning DHMO
Holocaust Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663
Nazi Olympics
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/detail.php
Clara Barton
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/27barton/27facts1.htm
Changing the value of Pi
http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/Pi-story.html
Death Penalty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty
Uncle Mark's Alternative Fueling Station
Rat Trap
http://www.slideshare.net/danahlongley/evaluating-your-sources-use-a-rat-trap
Teaching Zack to Think
http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/teaching-zack-to-think/
Frederick Douglass
http://www.motivation-tools.com/youth/frederick_douglass.htm
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/douglass/index.html
http://www.kids.gov/6_8/6_8_art_language.shtml
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http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Internet Public Library- A reliable source of information and directions to other links that have all been tested by librarians and other approved editors.