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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarine 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaritime 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaritime 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: 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMassachusetts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMatchlock 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaterial 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMath 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMcClellan 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMcClellan'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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMcClellan'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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeasuring 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeet 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMercury 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMexican 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: 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
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 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 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