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Mexican Army Frock Coat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This uniform coat would have been worn by a lieutenant in the Artillery of the Mexican army.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Mercury fuming box for daguerreotypes used by Samuel F. B. Morse
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This Mercury fuming box for developing daguerreotypes is certainly among the earliest photographic equipment used in America, da...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Meet Your Local League
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Take a trip or conduct a phone interview with a member of the League of Women Voters. The League of Women Voters was created in ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Measuring the Flag
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Studying the Star-Spangled Banner is a great chance to combine history and math! In this classroom activity, students apply hist...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0McClellan's Colt Model 1861 Navy Revolver
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This lighter, smaller-caliber Navy model was popular with ranking army officers, including General George McClellan.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0McClellan's Chess Set
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Chess set used by Major General George McClellan during the Civil War.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0McClellan Saddle
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Captain George B. McClellan toured Europe with a military commission looking at new military tactics. He returned and developed ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Math and Measuring the Star-Spangled Banner
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Just how big is the Star-Spangled Banner? In this classroom activity, students will visualize the area of the famous flag by mea...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Material and Symbol: The Lincoln-Keckley Dress
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This teacher's resource challenges students to think about the Lincoln-Keckley as an object that has multiple symbolic meanings....Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Matchlock Musket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This musket was most likely one of the muskets used to arm the militia. The stock is branded "Newtowne" for its place of origin,...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Massachusetts, Pine Tree Shilling, "1652" (struck 1667-1674)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.As early as 1650, the colony of Massachusetts Bay was a commercial success. But an inadequate supply of money put its future dev...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Massachusetts, 20 Shillings, 1690
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Called upon by the British government to help fight the French in Canada in 1689, Massachusetts authorities were hard-put to com...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Maritime Voices: Merchant Mariners and Shipyard Workers Remember World War II
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Listen to oral history recordings and examine related primary source materials to learn the stories of the men and women who bui...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Maritime Nation 1800-1850
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn how shipbuilders, mariners, and maritime merchants helped the United States defend itself and grow in this s...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Maritime Munchies
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What kinds of food do you eat? How do the foods you eat today compare to the types of foods that sailors ate during long voyages...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Marine Patent Models
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn about the history of maritime invention. This reference page is included in the online exhibition entitled A...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0March on Washington Handbill
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was the largest civil rights demonstration the nation had ever witnessed. One hundred ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Maracas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This variety of maracas, made of cow leather and sinew, is used in musical genres like guaracha, son, and salsa. They are of dif...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Map of Eastern North America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This Dutch map, made about 1655, shows eastern North America from what is now Canada to Virginia. Illustrations within the map i...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Manpack Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Global Positioning System (GPS) consists of NAVSTAR satellites in earth orbit that send signals to receivers on land, sea, o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0