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...
American revolution, African American history, world war 2, nineteenth century, 1800, family, slavery, immigration, 20th century, Second World War, WW2, Revolutionary War, social history, World War II, Black History, immigrant, 1900, War of Independence, WWII, twentieth century