Welcome to the Fall 2007 issue of The American Mosaic newsletter, an insider's guide to the latest enhancements and  updates to The American Mosaic suite of digital products documenting the American multiethnic experience.

Contents

• Tackling the Issues of the Day 
• Coming Your Way — 40 Volumes of New Content (a $4,050 value)
• Finding What You Want Just Got Easier
• Email Capability
• On the Mosaic Horizon
• Daily Life America — Now Available

Tackling the Issues of the Day
Presenting evocative perspectives, inviting reader feedback, and highlighting issues of concern to today's Latinos, The Latino American Experience Blog, "En mi opiniòn," went live in October 2007. Featuring essays and podcasts by LAE Advisory Editor Ilan Stavans and other guest writers, the blog is accessible free at http://lae.greenwood.com/blog.

Initial posts on the blog feature essays on the educational achievement gap and on controversial immigration activist Elvira Arellano by Dr. Stavans, as well as a memoir by LAE Advisory Board member Irma Flores-Manges about her family's centuries-long history living along the Texas-Mexico border and Library Journal mover and shaker Loida Garcia-Febo's essay on immigrant advocacy.

Coming Your Way - 40 Volumes of New Content (a $4,050 value)
Look for new content to become available in both The African American Experience and The Latino American Experience this month. More than 20 new titles will be added to each site. These new works include Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, an award-winning, three-volume work from Indiana University Press; Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, and Icons of Hip Hop, all two-volume sets from Greenwood; book-length biographies of Alex Rodriguez, Bob Marley, Shaquille O'Neal, and more. Altogether more than 40 volumes of content will be added to The American Mosaic over the fall, bringing the total number of volumes to well over 500, or a total book-by-book acquisition value of over $55,000.

Finding What You Want Just Got Easier
This summer, we streamlined access to The American Mosaic's large cache of over 10,000 images and primary documents. The new Image and Primary Source Indexes can be found in the Additional Resources section on the home pages of The African American Experience, The Latino American Experience, and the combined American Mosaic. These easy-to-use indexes provide users with direct access to over 5,900 images (photographs, maps, and illustrations) and 5,800 primary sources (letters, legal findings, treaties, laws, and more).

Email Capability
This fall, American Mosaic users will be able to email text, links, or search results to themselves or fellow Mosaic subscribers. Users can send messages as either text or HTML. Any images in the body of the text will also be included in the email.

On the Mosaic Horizon
This winter and spring look for:

• Twenty-three new lesson plans focusing on Latino history and culture, including four new Spanish-language plans, all available free at http://lae.greenwood.com/classroom by the end of November 2007.
• Topic Guides with key Mosaic resources on popular subjects, such as slavery, school desegregation, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration, and bilingual education; resources include links to biographies of key figures and other related content, image galleries, timelines, and more, starting in February 2008.
• New Origins section in The African American Experience, focusing on Africa, the Caribbean, and other key regions in the black diaspora
• Correlations for Mosaic content and lesson plans to state curriculum standards
• Coming Fall 2008: look for The American Indian Experience.

Daily Life America - Now Available
This searchable, and ever-expanding, Web site spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. This fourth addition to Greenwood's award-winning Daily Life suite of products encourages students to explore American history and culture via access to thousands of reference works, primary documents, illustrations, and audio files. For more information, or to sign up for a trial, click here.

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