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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMovement and Migration: The Gold Nugget That Launched the Gold Rush
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This teacher's resource challenges students to think about the gold nugget that began the California gold rush as a valuable res...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMourning Picture
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This embroidered mourning picture was embroidered in Lititz, Pennsylvania, about 1816, using silk thread, silk chenille, gold sp...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMount Vernon
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This is a link to the official website of George Washington s famous Virginia home. The site presents information about life at ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMorse Telegraph Register
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This telegraph register, manufactured in accord with the Morse patent, was installed in 1848 in South Bend, reputedly the first ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMorse Daguerreotype Camera
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), an artist and inventor of the telegraph, was in Paris in 1839 sharing the scientific and celebri...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMontgomery Bus Boycott Comic Artifact Exploration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students can guide themselves to a deeper understanding of the Montgomery bus boycott with this 2-page activity sheet. The sheet...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModern Maritime America 1950-Present
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Maritime activity is as important as ever, and it affects the lives of people everywhere. The importance of shipping to today's...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModel of the Ship Rattlesnake
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Revolutionary War privateer Rattlesnake was designed in 1779-80 by John Peck. It was built in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in th...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkModel 1842 Harpers Ferry Rifle
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Model 1842 Harpers Ferry percussion musket had a smoothbore barrel. After the adoption of the .58-caliber minie bullet in 1855, ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMobilizing Minds: Teaching Science and Math in the Age of Sputnik
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this online exhibition, students will learn how fear of Soviet domination galvanized reform in science and math education dur...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMobilizing Children on the World War II Homefront
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Take a close look at propaganda cartoons and other primary sources to analyze how young Americans were mobilized for the War. Th...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMister Rogers's Sweater
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This red knit cardigan was worn by Fred Rogers, creator and host of the children's program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (PBS, 19...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMississippi Rifle
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This gun derives its nickname of the "Mississippi rifle" from the Mississippi Riflemen led by Jefferson Davis. The Mexican-Ameri...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMiddle Passage: Olaudah Equiano, Enslaved African Man
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Olaudah Equiano s first-person account recalls his terrifying journey as an 11-year-old captive aboard a slave ship from Africa ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMid-Atlantic Association of Museums
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums is a non-profit membership organization, founded in 1945. The organization represents mu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMichael Yamashita, Inc.
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Yamashita began taking pictures in 1971 while on a self-styled "roots" trip to Japan. What began as a pastime led to a career co...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican War Broadside
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Recruiting poster printed with "Volunteers for Mexico." Broadsides (single sheets of paper usually printed on one side) served ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican Kitchen
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The French-born artist Jean Charlot spent his early career during the 1920s in Mexico City. His 1948 lithograph depicts a scene ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican Guerrilleros
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This lithograph illustrates the chaos and conflict engulfing northern Mexico during the years of the Mexican-American War from 1...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican Cavalry Flintlock
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.English-made Mexican cavalry flintlock carbine, .58 caliber marked with the Mexican symbol of an eagle devouring a snake.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0