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Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
7/7/2008
This list of web resources compiled by the National Museum of American History contains links to websites that are related to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It is included in the online exhibition entitled Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education.
Grade Range:
5-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
7/7/2008
This reproducible glossary includes terms used in most of the activities included in the America on the Move Classroom Activity Guide It is one of the many resources connected to the online exhibition entitled America on the Move, which focuses on transportation in US history.
Grade Range:
8-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Duration:
5 minutes
Date Posted:
9/3/2013
In this post, readers will discover the man and the reasoning behind what is now Black History Month, observed around the country every February. Dr. Carter G. Woodson spent my of the early decades of the 20th century promoting the study and seriousness of African American histor
Grade Range:
8-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
7/20/2012
For a good part of the twentieth century, Harlem’s Apollo Theater was one of the most prestigious, important, and well-known venues for black entertainers. In this post, students will learn about the Schiffman family, who ran the Apollo from 1934 to 1976. In 1946, Frank Schiffman
Grade Range:
8-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
7/9/2012
In this post, students will learn about an inscription hidden inside President Abraham Lincoln's watch that was a secret until the Museum investigated further in 2009. The message was put there by watchmaker Jonathan Dillon, who was repairing Lincoln's watch when the first shots were fired on For
Grade Range:
8-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Date Posted:
7/9/2012
In this post, students will explore Louisa May Alcott's service as a nurse during the Civil War. While Alcott is perhaps best known as the author of the 19th-century classic Little Women, she also served as a Union nurse in Washington, D.C. at Georgetown’s Union Hotel Hospita
