As COVID-19 deaths spiked in 2020, Suzanne Firstenberg’s public art installation "In America: How could this happen…"
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Grade Range:
6-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts, Primary Sources
Date Posted:
9/3/2020
During the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 the best medical minds in the country were focused on the problem of discovering the cause of the flu and how to prevent it — and they failed. Sherman’s Vaccine was developed in response to the pandemic. Essentially it was a “stew” of numerous bacteria
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites
Date Posted:
8/25/2014
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts, Primary Sources
Date Posted:
8/10/2009
The steam locomotive "John Bull" was built in 1831 and ran for 35 years, pulling trains of passengers and cargo between the two largest cities of the time, Philadelphia and New York. The locomotive propelled trains at 25 to 30 miles per hour...
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites
Date Posted:
9/10/2008
Trains.com is a website dedicated to those who love everything about railroading and model trains. It contains the latest railroad news, and allows students to explore the history of railroading and the hobby of model trains. The website is the home of five railroading-related magazin
Grade Range:
8-12
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Duration:
5 minutes
Date Posted:
9/4/2013
In this post, readers will be introduced to our engineering collections via the architectural masterpiece Grand Central Station, which celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 2, 2013. Written by Goldman Sachs Fellow Allison Marsh, a researcher in the Division of Work and
