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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark Expedition Pocket Compass
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In the spring of 1803, Meriwether Lewis began to purchase scientific and mathematical instruments for a pending expedition into ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLewis and Clark as Naturalists
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This online exhibition focuses on the natural history specimens that were collected by Lewis and Clark on their historic expedit...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLenses and Lighthouses
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Have you ever wondered how the lights in lighthouses are so bright? In this activity, students will examine a Fresnel lens to de...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeMat Revolver
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The LeMat revolver was a favorite of famous high-ranking Confederate officers, such as J. E. B. Stuart.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLegendary Coins and Currency Timeline
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This interactive timeline will introduce students to a unique and interesting perspective of American history as they navigate c...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLegendary Coins and Currency Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This highly interactive online exhibition includes a game and timeline and allows students to rotate and zoom in on objects from...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLegacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This resource allows students to browse the two hundred and fifty artifacts included in the Legacies: Collecting Americas Histor...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeg Silque Liquid Stockings
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.While leg makeup has been commercially available since the 1920s, it wasn't until rationing was introduced during the World War ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeaving Things Behind
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What would you take if you were suddenly forced to move? In this activity, students will make this decision after reading and re...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning About Museums
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What do museums do? In this classroom activity, students will recognize the Smithsonian Institution and be able to explain what ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLap Blanket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The American flag is a powerful symbol of freedom and independence for many activist groups who wish to claim full rights as cit...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLanyard and Pick
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Soldiers who were held prisoner faced enormous boredom. They would often find debris and use it to make objects to pass the time.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLakota Winter Counts
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Winter counts are calendars that the Lakota used to mark the passage of time. This online exhibition features a searchable datab...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLady's Compact
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This oval lady's compact is made in the shape of a telephone dial. On the dial appears "I LIKE IKE," with a map of the United St...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLace collar
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In Puerto Rico, the traditional center of lace making is the town of Moca. There, lace is made by hand on bobbins and is known a...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLa Tierra Nueva en Aztlán
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The evolving civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s revolutionized the consciousness of young people across the Un...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLa Malinche
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.La Malinche, the title of this lithograph, was the indigenous woman who translated for Cort s between Maya, N huatl, and Spanish...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLa Llorona Doll
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is the frightening figure of a heartbroken woman who drowned her children and haunts the night...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKnife, Fork, and Plate from Libby Prison
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.During the Civil War, Libby Prison held over 125,000 men, mostly Union officers. This knife, fork, and plate was issued to priso...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKermit the Frog Puppet
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Kermit, a hand and rod puppet created in 1955 by Jim Henson, belongs to America's beloved puppet troupe, The Muppets. Kermit has...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0