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Inaugural Words 1789-Present (Word Cloud)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This website, from the New York Times, allows students to read the texts of every American president s inauguration speech. The...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Inauguration Day 2009
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Teachers and students will find this official Inauguration Day website from the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Cerem...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Infantry Private Frock Coat and Hardee Hat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In 1855 Secretary of War Jefferson Davis was instrumental in the creation of two regiments of cavalry. It was recommended that t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Infantry Private's Coat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.US Army private's uniform from approximately 1840.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Inland Waterways 1820-1940
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn how commerce on the Great Lakes, canals and rivers played an important role in the development of the countr...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0In-Out Basket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The process of manufacturing such baskets is called "sewing," but it is actually a process of binding and coiling long strands o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Este sitio de web del instituto que trabaja para la preservaci n de la cultura puertorrique a contiene mucha informaci n sobre e...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Interactive Gettysburg Address
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Use this interactive document to bring one of the five known handwritten copies of the Gettysburg Address to life! Students can ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Interactive Star-Spangled Banner
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Explore features of the Star-Spangled Banner using this interactive flag included in the online exhibition entitled The Star-Spa...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Introduction to Acoustics Instruments
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientif...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.A brief summary of the changes in voting technology is the focus of the introduction to Vote: The Machinery of Democracy, an onl...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invent a Board Game
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Invent, build and then play your very own board game! This activity from Spark!Lab includes step-by-step directions, discussion ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invent a Musical Whirligig
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Since antiquity, people have used their imagination and common materials to invent toys, many of them active, kid-powered, and n...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invent Your Own Gelatin Dessert
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Learn a bit about the invention of Jell-O (in 1845!) and then invent a gelatin dessert of your own. This activity from Spark!Lab...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invention at Play Educator's Manual
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This manual, included in the online exhibition Invention at Play, from the Lemelson Center, will provide an array of activities,...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invention at Play Family Activities Guide
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This booklet, connected to the Invention at Play online exhibition from the Lemelson Center, highlights inventors who started ou...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invention at Play Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Through the use of interactive games, inventors' stories, video commentaries, and toy displays, students will learn how play con...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Invention Playhouse
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Through the use of four interactive games, students will learn how play-the ordinary and everyday "work of childhood"-connects t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Immigration Patterns
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.It's in the numbers! Explore how charts and data maps can help you see immigration patterns in history. Part of an OurStory modu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0Iron Lung
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This early respirator for producing artificial respiration over long periods of time was designed and constructed by the donor, ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0