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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMake a Lightbulb
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Thomas Edison changed our world with electric lights and an entire system that produced and delivered electrical power. Try your...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 / HyperLinkMajor General George McClellan's Coat Worn at Antietam
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.General Robert E. Lee s first invasion of the North culminated in the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in Ame...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMagazine Cover Gallery
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Through the use of use of authentic magazine covers, objects from the museum's collections, a timeline and brief video news clip...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 / HyperLinkLouisville Slugger Baseball Bat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.St. Louis Cardinal Stan The Man Musial (b. 1920) used this Louisville Slugger to collect his 3,000th hit on May 13, 1958, in C...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLouis Armstrong Education Kit
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This kit of guided listening activities and streaming music offers an engaging way of introducing students to jazz. It traces Lo...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLost in the Coin Vault
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this interactive game, students will enhance their analytical skills as they decipher clues and closely examine objects from ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLooking Back on Brown vs. Board of Education
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This National Public Radio Website about the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling is a great resource for both stud...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLooking at Memorials
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Field trips to memorials are great ways to learn about how communities remember important events. In this activity, students wi...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiving in the Atlantic World 1450-1800
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn how Atlantic-based trade shaped modern world history and life in America, and explore the web of maritime co...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLincoln, the Smithsonian, and Science Lecture Video
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this archived panel discussion, experts compare and contrast the impact of science and technology on the role of the presiden...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLincoln, Race and the American Presidency Lecture Video
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this archived panel discussion, experts discuss Abraham Lincoln's views on race issues in the context of his mid-19th century...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLincoln at 200
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This website, produced by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Chicago History Museum, is part of the bicentenni...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLimits of Presidential Power
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will explore the importance of the system of checks and balances, Congress, the Supreme Court, impeachment, public opin...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLighting a Revolution
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Explore the process of invention and compare Thomas Edison's well-known work on the electric light bulb a century ago with sever...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLife on the Water
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.For hundreds of years, seacoasts, rivers, lakes, and canals have had a big impact on the ways America has changed as a country. ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLife in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this OurStory module entitled Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp, students will learn about the lives of Japane...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 / HyperLinkLife Cycle of the Poliovirus Animation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This activity will help students understand how polio affected the lives of Americans throughout the 20th century. By viewing th...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0