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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJohn Bull Riding the Rails
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.See one of America's earliest steam locomotives, the John Bull, come to life while riding the rails. Part of an OurStory module ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKearsarge Cap
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Cap worn by Landsman Nathan Ives of the USS Kearsarge. The CSS Alabama was a 1,050-ton screw steam sloop of war. Built in Liverp...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
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 / 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 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 Mapping the West
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Cartography and the making of maps is the focus of this online exhibiiton. This site features online access to Lewis and Clark m...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLibrary of Congress
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Library of Congress, established in 1800 serves as the research arm of Congress and is recognized as the national library of...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLife in a Sod House Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn about life on the prairie and in sod houses in this OurStory module, entitled Life in a Sod House. The modul...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLydia Dickman's Sampler
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic needlework skills needed t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMajor Lemuel Montgomery's Pistol
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.One of a pair of flintlock pistols Andrew Jackson presented to Major Lemuel P. Montgomery following the battle of Talladega. Mon...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMake Your Own Buffalo Hide Painting
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this activity, students will learn about the culture of the Native American people of the Great Plains as they create their o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMake your Own Fish Kite
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this activity, students will learn how to make their own fish kites, called koinobori. Koinobori are an important expression ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Sense of "Failed" Car Technology
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students can learn about the history of experimentation and innovation in the design of steam-powered, internal-combustion, elec...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaritime 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMassachusetts, 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: 0