Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 9/2/2008
Students will learn how the Smithsonian acquired the house at 16 Elm Street Ipswich, Massachusetts and saved more than a dozen family stories and 200 years of American social history. They will also learn some of the methods historians and curators used to learn about this house's past, the ways that it changed over time, and the people who lived in it.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
Life on America's farms in the 1920s and 1930s meant hard work and frugal habits. Farm families w...
War of Independence, American revolution, WWII, twentieth century, nineteenth century, Black History, world war 2, 1900, immigration, 20th century, 1800, World War II, African American history, family, WW2, immigrant, Second World War, social history, Revolutionary War, slavery