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Faustin, First Emperor of Haiti
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Image of Emperor Faustin of Haiti, 1852. Faustin ruled from 1847-1849 as president, and from 1849-1859 as emperor before being f...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0First Person Account: Clarence Sasser
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, Clarence Sasser recounts his war experience.This video is part of the Price of Fre...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0First Person Account: Eugenia Phillips
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Eugenia Phillips, a Southern spy, tells of her encounter with Union troops trying to incriminate her. This video is part of the ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0First Person Account: Fred Castleberry
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Fred Castleberry, an US infantryman in Vietnam, tells how a Huey saved his life after he was wounded in battle. This video is pa...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0First Person Account: Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, acting governor of New Mexico, expresses the pain of changing loyalty from Mexico to the United St...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0First Person Account: Louis Myers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Louis Myers, a Union Soldier from West Virginia, describes changes in his perspectives about War. This video is part of the Pric...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Fishing For a Living 1840-1920
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn about the importance of salmon fishing to the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, and the communities...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Five-String Fretless Banjo
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Although some know of the banjo's use by African Americans, the popular consciousness of the banjo has been dominated by images ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Flight 93 National Memorial
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This site from the National Park Service provides information on the memorial design; guides for parents, children, and young ad...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Frank Brownell's Medal of Honor
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Frank E. Brownell, private, Company A, 11th New York Infantry. On May 24, 1861, Brownell...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0From Many, One: Maria Isabel Solis Thomas, Shipyard Worker
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Maria Isabel Solis Thomas moved across the country to work in a shipyard on the World War II home front. Listen to her story, a...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0From Segregation to Sit-ins: The Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This teacher's resource challenges students to think about the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter and it's importance to the C...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Full Steam to Freedom
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Robert Smalls was born a slave in South Carolina, but made a daring escape to freedom on the ship CSS Planter and joined the Uni...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Game Boy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. It was a handheld video game console that combined aspects of Nintendos successful N...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Get a "Sense" of It
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.What would life have been like in a sod house? This group of activities will allow students to use their senses to see, smell, a...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Great Seal of the Confederacy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Seal with an equestrian portrait of George Washington, surrounded by a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Hawaiian Plantation Locomotive, Olomana
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students can learn about the history of the sugarcane industry in Hawaii by exploring how the Olomana, a plantation locomotive, ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Henry Presentation Rifle
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This gold-mounted, engraved Henry rifle was presented to Abraham Lincoln in an effort to obtain his influence in their purchase ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Hessian Miter Cap
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen was one of the regiments of the Second Division of troops from the German principality of H...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Hessian Musket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.King George III used German soldiers to bolster his ranks. Many of these mercenaries came from Hesse-Cassel and were called "Hes...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0