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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
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Interactives & Media
Join the National Museum of American History's for an online exploration into key social studies topics, highlighting museum resources from the Smithsonian. This series features museum educators and curators from different Smithsonian museums. Each video is about 30-60 minutes.
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Reference Materials
Students will learn about the virtually simultaneous introduction of English, French, and Spanish culture to this vast area and tells the stories of Native and European societies through 1700. Downloadable PDFs are included to relate the themes addressed in the exhibition to standards of learning
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Reference Materials
Through this online resource students will learn how the popularity of birds and their feathers as fashion accessories led to the creation of conservation societies, such as the Audobon society, as well as the passage of laws intended to prevent certain species of birds from extinction
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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.
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Reference Materials
Students will learn about the United States' role as the world's only superpower folling the collapse of the Soviet Union, American involvement in the Persian Gulf War, the global war on terrorism that began with the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in this section of the&nb
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Students will learn the details of the Spanish-American war including: the causes of the war; the influence of Yellow Journalism; the successes of a modernized American navy; the war in Cuba and the Philippines, the Philippine Insurrection and the new foreign policy of expansionism in this s
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Reference Materials, Primary Sources, Interactives & Media
Through brief biographies of the composers, primary source documents, and media clips, students will learn about the collaboration of these two great jazz composers and the process involved in writing and recording two of the most celebrated jazz pieces. This website examines two jazz standa
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Reference Materials
The focus of this online exhibition is the history of mathematics education in America. Beginning with the advent of public education in the early nineteenth century and ending in the modern Information Age, students will learn how advances in technology and changes in education theory have
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Reference Materials
Americans went to war to win their independence from Great Britain. Through the use of images and objects from the Museum's collections, students will learn about the involvement of colonial militias during the French and Indian War, the causes of the Revolution, life in the Continental Army
Author:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Early Elementary School
A brief picture book on the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A historical account of the impact of the automobile on society.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Children encounter the portraits of 12 famous African American women during a summer visit to Aunt Connie's house.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School,High School
A biography of Dizzy Gillespie, as an ambassador of jazz who introduced the world to bebop.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Inspired by the pioneering professional Chinese American basketball team the Hong Wah kues, Yep recreates a colorful era of barnstorming basketball.
Author:
Jennifer Armstrong
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A fictionalized exchange of letters between a little girl and Thomas Jefferson accounts events of the 1800s.
Author:
Joanne Oppenheim, Joanne
Reading Level:
Adult,High School,Middle School
A chronicle of the correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II
Author:
Judy Goldberg (editor)
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
Culled from over 20,000 letters addressed to Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton. Questions are asked and answers given related to Chelsea's experiences while living in the White House.
Author:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Banneker, an 18th-century astronomer and mathematician, was a free African American who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson about ending slavery.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of two boys growing up in Pennsylvania during 1853, where they encounter slave traders, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad.