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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Becoming US is a new educational resource for high school teachers and students to learn immigration and migration history in a more accurate and inclusive way. The people of North America came from many cultures and spoke different languages long before the founding of the Uni
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Primary Sources
Students can read the stories of immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, and other Latin American countries, and view objects related to the journey to America. Students can also learn about the experiences of workers in the in the mid-twentieth century Bracero guest worker program. This reference page is
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Students will learn more about the carnival traditions of Puerto Rico in this OurStory module. The module includes links to hands-on activities and a list of recommended readings. OurStory is a series of modules designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Lisa Law's photographs provide glimpses into the folk and rock music scenes, California's blossoming counterculture, and the family-centered and spiritual world of commune life in New Mexico. In this online resource, students will examine themes from the 1960's counterculture. At the bottom of ea
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Reference Materials
This online exhibition commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The website covers each major period of Lincoln's private and public life, especially his years in Washington when he made the crucial decisions that ended slavery and preserved the nation. Also
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Railroads have moved people and cargo around America for more than 180 years. By using this OurStory module, children and adults can enjoy exploring the history of trains in America. Focused on actively reading Jingle the Brass, a historical fiction picture book about a ride on a steam l
Resource Type(s):
Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
This online exhibition explores the role of transportation in American history. Students will learn about communities wrestling with the changes that new transportation networks brought; how cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national and international
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Primary Sources
Through the use of downloadable images of the original documents and 4 brief videos using Lincoln's words to answer questions about the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, students will learn how Abraham Lincoln struggled with the same questions that many Americans had about th
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Reference Materials
Students can learn the century-long history of grass-roots invention in American automobile racing. This reference page is included in the online exhibition entitled America on the Move, which focuses on transportation in US history.
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials
Students can learn more about American railroads during the 20th century. This reference page is included in the online exhibition entitled America on the Move, which focuses on transportation in US history.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
An emotional Civil War story about two soldiers who become friends.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
This picture book tells a historical fiction story about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed during World War II.
Reading Level:
High School
A look at Plessy v. Ferguson, the legal proceedings that had a large impact on African Americans and preceded the Civil Rights Movement.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A young pioneer girl plants and nurtures a willow tree near her new prairie home.
Author:
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Informational children's book about the American prairies.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A young boy learns the ways of his Native American family as well as growing up with the traditions of a typical American child.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
Two sisters are raised between different worlds and they must balance between two languages and religions.
Author:
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Though the narrative of a young Cochiti Pueblo girl, readers learn traditions of the Native American culture including how pottery, instruments and food are created, as well as some traditional folklore.
Author:
Martin Schwabacher
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A description of Puerto Rico including wildlife, government and culture.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
The focus of this book is on American feminists from the pre-Revolutionary War period to the present both well-known and obscure. It is presented in loose chronological order with illustrations and time lines.
