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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Cold War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Students will learn how a "cold war" between the United States and the Soviet Union began after World War II in this section of ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Price of Freedom: Americans at War Homepage
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Americans have gone to war to win their independence, expand their national boundaries, define their freedoms, and defend their ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConfederate Officer's Frock Coat
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This is the type of jacket that would have been worn by a Confederate medical officer.Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Object of History
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This resource includes an introductory essay entitled Looking at Artifacts, Thinking about History, 6 sections that each focus o...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToy Fire Engine
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Cast-iron toys are essentially American. Small foundries and factories were mass-producing them towards the close of the 19th ce...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTower Musket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Private Rowel Colby saw service at the battle of Bennington, and took this Tower flint-lock musket from a dead British soldier d...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Vietnam War
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.From 1956-1975, Americans fought a protracted and divisive war against Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. Students will focu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransportation History Videos
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Three short videos provide an overview of American transportation history in three different eras: 1800-1900, 1900-1950, and 195...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAssociation of Midwest Museums
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Association of Midwest Museums was founded in 1927. It is a non-profit membership organization that provides resources to mu...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCrayola Crayons
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Cherished by generations of child artists, Crayola crayons were invented in 1903 by the Binney Smith Company of Easton, Pennsy...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkManabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The mission of the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum is to provide access to the Museum...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPublic Papers of the Presidents: Hoover through Clinton
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Public Papers of the Presidents, which is compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives an...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Jefferson Desk and the Declaration of Independence
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This object-based learning activity revolves around the desk on which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Tell the story of early American science with an online exhibition and digital reproduction of the oldest surviving Anglo-Americ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAsian American Curriculum Project
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The mission of the Asian American Curriculum Project is to educate the public about the great diversity of the Asian American ex...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCesar Chavez's Union Jacket
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Cesar Chavez inspired a nation to seek justice for the poorest of America's laborers. A migrant worker since childhood, Cesar Ch...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 / HyperLinkBlog Post: Collecting the Presidential Campaigns
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this post, students will learn how political history curators collect campaign memorabilia Democratic and Republican National...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Stories: America on the Move Electronic Field Trip, Part 2
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.In this electronic field, curators from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's exhibition America on the Move t...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSheet Music-"The Battle of the Sewing Machines"
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.The Battle of the Sewing Machines" was composed and arranged by F. Hyde for the piano, and was published in 1874 by Wm. A. Pond ...Contributor: National Museum of American HistoryViews: 0Favorites: 0