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Blog Post: How Evelyn Lauder took on breast cancer at the cosmetics counter

Grade Range:

8-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials

Date Posted:

8/12/2021

“They had just arrived in a foreign country and the small girl’s mother was sent away. Ernest and Mimi Hausner fled their home in Vienna in 1938, when little Evelyn was just a toddler. Nazi Germany had annexed Austria, putting the lives of Jews like the Hausners at risk. They made it to England

Charity

Grade Range:

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts

Date Posted:

3/23/2018

After a young lady learned to embroider a sampler, she might attend a female academy to make a silk embroidered picture. This was a more challenging technique that became popular in the early 1800s. Subjects included classical, biblical, and historical scenes, as well as mourning pictures.

"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange

Grade Range:

9-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

3/22/2012

During the Great Depression, government photographer Dorothea Lange took this picture at a migrant farmworkers' camp near Nipomo, California. Lange's brief caption recorded her impressions of the family's plight: "Destitute pea pickers ... a 32-year-old mother of seven children." F

Apple II Personal Computer

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

3/12/2012

In 1976, computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs began selling their Apple I computer in kit form to computer stores. A month later, Wozniak was working on a design for an improved version, the Apple II. They demonstrated a prototype in December, and then introduced it to the public in Apr

History Explorer Podcast: Investigating Portraiture

Grade Range:

Resource Type(s):

Interactives & Media, Worksheets

Duration:

15 minutes

Date Posted:

5/15/2011

In this episode of the History Explorer podcast series, Curator Shannon Perich discusses how portraiture can be used in historical research. Shannon presents three historical portraits (including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother), describing the historical context of each, while also providin

John Mosby's Crutches

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

12/28/2010

These crutches were used by John Mosby during the Civil War. Mosby stated, “These crutches were made for me during the war by a slave named Isaac who belonged to my father. They were first used in August 1863 when I went home wounded. My mother kept them for me and I again used them in Septembe

La Malinche

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

9/17/2009

La Malinche, the title of this lithograph, was the indigenous woman who translated for Cortés between Maya, Náhuatl, and Spanish during his first years in Mexico. Considered either as a traitor or a founding mother by some Mexicans, La Malinche was Cortés' lover and the mother of his

Massachusetts, Pine Tree Shilling, "1652" (struck 1667-1674)

Grade Range:

K-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

6/10/2009

As early as 1650, the colony of Massachusetts Bay was a commercial success. But an inadequate supply of money put its future development in jeopardy. England was not inclined to send gold and silver coins to the colonies, for they were in short supply in the mother country. Taking

Portrait Medal of James Smithson

Grade Range:

5-12

Resource Type(s):

Artifacts, Primary Sources

Date Posted:

6/10/2009

James Smithson was born in 1765, the illegitimate son of Sir Hugh Smithson, later known as Sir Hugh Percy, Baronet, 1st Duke of Northumberland, K.G., and Elizabeth Hungerford Keate. Elizabeth Keate had been married to James Macie, and so Smithson first bore the name of James Lewis Macie.

World War II

Grade Range:

4-12

Resource Type(s):

Reference Materials

Date Posted:

10/14/2008

Students will learn how Americans joined the Allies to defeat Axis militarism and nationalist expansion. Sixteen million Americans donned uniforms in this section of the online exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. The millions more who stayed home comprised a vast civilian

Just Like Me

Author:

Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother a

Mailing May

Author:

Michael O. Tunnell

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

When a young girl can't afford to go visit her grandmother by train, her family discovers a less costly way for her to travel - by mail.

Meet Addy

Author:

Connie Porter

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

A young girl excapes slavery with her mother (from the American Girls Collection).

Seven Brave Women

Author:

Betsy Hearne

Reading Level:

Pre-School,Early Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

Author Betsy Hearne entertains readers with stories about seven generations of women in her family, from the Revolutionary era to today. In the lives they built and the objects they left behind, the author finds a legacy of strength, courage, and wisdom that spans the link between mothers and dau

The Arabic Quilt

Author:

Aya Khalil

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

Bilingual:

Yes

Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that’s why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama

The Colors of Us

Author:

Karen Katz

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.

The Flag Maker

Author:

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Reading Level:

Early Elementary School

Genre:

Fiction

This is a story of the Star-Spangled Banner through the eyes of young Caroline Pickersgill, the daughter of an important flag maker, Mary Pickersgill.

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

Author:

Amy Hest

Reading Level:

Late Elementary School

Genre:

Non Fiction

A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.

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Blog Post: How Evelyn Lauder took on breast cancer at the cosmetics counter

Charity

"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange

Apple II Personal Computer

History Explorer Podcast: Investigating Portraiture

John Mosby's Crutches

La Malinche

Massachusetts, Pine Tree Shilling, "1652" (struck 1667-1674)

Portrait Medal of James Smithson

World War II

Just Like Me

Mailing May

Meet Addy

Seven Brave Women

The Arabic Quilt

The Colors of Us

The Flag Maker

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

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