Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 9/9/2008
This website looks at the lives of selected West Point graduates who attended the Academy between 1802 and 1918. Students will also learn about the U.S. Army's major functions in 19th and early 20th century America: building the nation's infrastructure of roads, bridges, canals, and railroads; exploring its territories from the Mississippi to the Pacific; and fighting its wars-the role of the West Pointers in engineering, exploration, and war.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
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20th century, US history, First World War, Mexican-American War, 19th Century, history, WWI, twentieth century, Mexican War, war, World War I, military history, American history, Mexican american war, WW1, War with Mexico, United States history, World War 1, great war, nineteenth century