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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFirst Person Account: George Ballentine
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.George Ballentine, a British volunteer in the United States Army during the Mexican War, tells of fighting at Cerro Gordo. This ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Bracero Archive-Learning From Documents
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this activity, one of three on the Bracero Archive website, students will examine two public laws and other primary resources...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlog Post: Memories of a Wartime Poster Model
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this post, students will learn the story of Ms. Weslee W. D Audney, a woman who modeled for a government poster during World ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlog Post: The Mystery Behind a Civil War Nurse's Photo Album
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this post, students will learn about the Civil War through a photographic album presented to Anna Lowell in 1864 by a group o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuild Your Own Speaker
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.A speaker is a device found in radios, telephones, and other electronic devices that converts electrical energy into sound energ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHistory Explorer Podcast: Holidays on Display
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, curator Larry Bird discusses the development of holiday parades, departm...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Gear & Lever Voting Machine
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Gear and Lever voting, meant to ensure the confidentiality and efficiency of the election process, is the focus of this section...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShofar
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The shofar, one of the earliest known musical instruments, is usually made from a ram's horn. Used in biblical times to signal i...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStubby
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.While training for combat on the fields of Yale University in 1917, Private J. Robert Conroy found a brindle puppy with a short ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe 1896 Washington Salon & Art Photographic Exhibition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This online exhibition tells the story of how the 1896 Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition led to the creation of t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Voting Machine and Election Reform
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This object-based learning activity revolves around an 1898 Standard Voting Machine, the fight against voting fraud and the exte...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCommunicating the Presidency
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn how mass media, the entertainment industry and consumer products are all used to conduct a national dialogue...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPresident John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.30 years after the assassination of President Kennedy, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Coll...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 / HyperLinkThe Union is Dissolved! Broadside
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Charleston Mercury s The Union Is Dissolved! broadside was the first Confederate publication, as South Carolina was the fi...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFirst Person Account: Lydia Post
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Lydia Minturn Post, a Long Island patriot, expresses her fear that the American Revolution will fail. Ms. Post discusses the dis...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlog Post: Civil War Portraits
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this post, students will learn how photographs shaped the public s knowledge and experience of the Civil War, and how people ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlog Post: Star Spangled Women: Mary Pickersgill
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this post, students will learn the story of Mary Pickersgill, the woman who created the Star-Spangled Banner. Mary Pickersgil...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCodex Telleriano-Remensis
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The civilizations of pre-Hispanic Mexico recorded their histories, religious beliefs, and scientific knowledge in books called c...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSouvenir of the Opening of the East River Bridge, May 24, 1883
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.By the late 19th century, the United States had established itself as a world leader in the area of civil engineering. Perhaps n...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0