American Cultures Merit Badge Resources

• Worksheet on American Cultures from usscouts.org. This is a great tool to organize your work, projects and thoughts.
• Cultural Awareness Troop Program Features
• Wikipedia: Society of the United States - good overview of the idea of a melting pot culture for an adult or high school reading level
• Wikipedia: Melting pot - again, high school or adult level
• America's Story by the Library of Congress
• Music from America's past is on a jukebox by the Library of Congress
• The LOC also has American Memory with a broad collections of music, maps, photos, advertising, and other digital media. You can get lost in "American Culture" here, in a good way!
• A different resource is Cyndi's List. It is a list of links, about people, their history and culture for folks who take family and culture seriously--genealogists (family historians).
• Cyndi's List: African-American or Cajun-Acadian history, for example, then explore your group here!
• American Jewish history: 350th.org
• Native Americans: Laws and Treaties - very interesting documents
• Lone Star College Kingwood Library - American Cultural History - 20th Century
• American Family Traditions - American Culture

This list was first posted on the ScoutSigns Blog. I have made some additions.