Links To Foklife, Human Rights, and Education Sites and Sources
This page is being updated. Please excuse the current lack of organization. It will get better. Thanks especially to Dr. Tim Evans for providing many of these links in his Folklore and Education graduate seminar at Western Kentucky University.
Crossing the Lines: Projects and Examples Where Culture, Folklife, Oral History and Human Rights Education and Dialog Come Together
Creative Resources for Coexistence and Reconciliation: A Virtual Resource Center.
Highlander Research and Education Center
The Arts of Building Peace: Stories of Cultural Workers and and Artist-Peacebuilders, a collection of papers written by undergrad and graduate students at Brandis University.
Oral History/Historical Memory/Folklife:
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
Archive of American Folk Medicine
An online version of folklorist Wayland Hand’s amazing research.
Arizona State Museum Southwest Cultural Podcasts Created by students and native artists, these podcasts and photos walk you through the exhibits including the exhibit “Masks of Mexico.”
The Cultural Memory Bank Project, a part of the SEEDS Project which works to save Native American heritage seeds and agricultural knowledge in the southwest.
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project
Fieldworing Online: A Community for Researchers and WritersA wonderful resource for anyone engaging in fieldwork and/or teaching others how to do so.
Florida Cultural Heritage Alliance
Folksteams, an online National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures.
The Group for Cultural Documentation
Montana Heritage Project
A project where high school students research, preserve, and analyze Montana history.
National Museum of the American Indian
Voices of New York Traditions An online collection of audio documentaries exploring traditional art and artists in the New York area.
Oral History Association, a national association/community and clearinghouse for all things oral history. Includes a link to to their list serve, annual conference dates, calls for papers, and a multitude of resources.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
University of Missiourri exhibit, Work is Art and Art is Work an online version of their recent luthier exhibit.
The Veteran’s History Project, a project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Wisconsin Folks, a site highlighting traditional and multi-cultural artists in Wisconsin.
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Folklife, Oral History, Human Rights Education, and K-12 Education Projects
Many folklife programs offer educational projects that may not have a specific web-based home. See the sites listed above for additional information on educational sources or contact a folklorist near you to see about educational programs in your area.
American Memory Learning Page at the Library of Congress
Center for the Study of the Built Environment
Digital Traditions, a website providing access to the folklife resources at the McKissick Museum in South Carolina.
Louisiana Voices Folklife in Eduction Project
Hmong Cultural Tour , an educational program of the The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.
Teacherlore Blog, reflections on the educational process from the Montana Heritage Project.
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Rural School and Community Trust
The Rights Angle: Human Rights Education Using the Newspaper created by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center.
This unit includes handouts and individual packets specific to each province in Canada. The guidebooks provide grade specific activities that encourage students to discuss rights and responsibilities of all citizens in a democracy and provide students with the resources needed to identify and discuss human rights concerns in the world around them. This is a great example piece for anyone wanting to create a classroom project focusing on understanding local media and regionally specific issues.
Teaching Tolerance, an educational program of the Southern Poverty Law Center
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INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dollars and Sense, the Magazine of Economic Justice.
Social Justice Organizations, Peacebuilding, Dialog, and Related Sites:
International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life.
Coexistence International, a research and support center for “conflict prevention, management, resolution, and transformation, as well as peacebuilding, and diversity/multicultural work.” Folklorists and cultural workers see especially their publications, including the very helpful paper “Focus on Coexistence and the Arts.”
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Rural Issues, Projects, Solutions, and Concerns
The Center for Rural Strategies, seeking “to improve economic and social conditions for communities in the countryside and around the world through the creative and innovative use of media and communications.”
Daily Yonder, a daily multi-media buffet of news, commentary, research, and features regarding rural American.
The Rural Assembly, “The National Rural Assembly is a movement of people and organizations devoted to building a stronger, more vibrant rural America.”
SPECIFIC TO ARKANSAS
Arkansas Advocate for Children and Families
Arkansas Citizens First Congress, a coalition of community grassroots organizations from around the state.
Arkansas and Globalization Blog An online discussion about the effects of the globalized marketplace on individual communities in Arkansas.
Arkansas Senate, State Capitol Week in Review
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
SPECIFIC to KENTUCKY
Living the Story, the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
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RADIO AND PODCASTS: FOLKLIFE, ORAL HISTORY and/or SOCIAL JUSTICE AUDIO Programs
Iowa Roots, a partnership between the Iowa Arts Council and Iowa Public Radio.
National Museum of the American Indian Podcasts
National Writing Project’s Rural Voices Radio
National Radio Project’s Making Contact
Showcasing voices and perspectives rarely heard in mainstream media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics and the connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive and creative ways to solve problems.
OTHER BLOGS
Facing South, a New Voice for the Changing South
OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Journal of the Nonprofit World
Includes information about the world of grants and funding, general information about managing a nonprofit, and current issues in the nonprofit world, including budget cuts.
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