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American Centuries, View From New England
A multi-purpose site that provides information on history and historic artifacts from New England. There are also some interesting games that serve to enhance learning about New England. Be sure to watch video demonstrations of Early...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Regional Realism: Mark Twain
This biography features Mark Twain as a regional realist author, world renown for his ability to portray real Americans in the late nineteenth century. Click "Mark Twain Activities" for artifacts and activities.
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Memorial Hall Museum: American Centuries: Kids' Home Page
An extensive interactive that looks at clothing from the 17th through early 20th centuries, furniture, documents, and old tools.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Utopian Promise: William Bradford
Seventeenth century author, William Bradford, set sail on the Mayflower and embarked on a journey to the New World using his experiences for his writings. Click on "William Bradford Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
Library of Congress
Loc: Exploring the Early Americas: Columbus and the Taino
An on-line exhibit displaying copies of Columbus' journals, other writings about his voyages and findings, as well as information and artifacts of the Taino, the Native Americans Columbus encountered on San Salvador.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History: Primary Sources
A varied collection of primary resources from American history. They include portraits, banknotes, artifacts, newspaper items, paintings, and illustrations.
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PBS
Pbs Teachers: Coming Into America: Dating Artifacts 9 12 [Pdf]
Investigate new discussions on the presence of humans in North America, and emulate the work of archeologists in dating artifacts at a dig site. Use clay to model how the radioactive isotope of carbon (C14) is used in dating organic...
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American Artifacts: Early Cow Milking Machines
Developement of the early cow milking machines. Brief history on agricultural advancements in milking of cows.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Traces: Historic Archaeology
Excellent lesson plans that challenge students to consider every day uses for artifacts. Site provides an analysis worksheet that will help students consider the importance of artifacts in understanding historical people. Links to sites...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: North American Ethnographic Collection
The Division of Anthropology was established at the AMNH in 1873, only four years after the founding of the museum. During its first 17 years, the department was concerned almost exclusively with the acquisition and display of artifacts....
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: First Arrivals, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Numerous visual images of artifacts from English settlements at Jamestown and at Plymouth, and from Spanish settlement in Hispaniola, and three original accounts of each of those early settlements that describe the possibilities and the...
University of California
University of California: Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection
This collection at the University of California-Berkeley can now be accessed online through the Online Archive of California. It provides a vast collection of historically significant primary source images of early California and the...
University of Alaska
Alaska Science Forum: Evidence Piling Up for Coastal Migration Route
One knife pulled from the sea may shed more light on the mysteries of the first Americans. Archaeologists are still shaping the new Coastal Migration Route theory one artifact at a time.
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Native Peoples of America: Adena
An informative look at the Adena culture and their burial mounds, food resources, and artifacts found in the burial mounds.Find links to additional information on the web about this early Native American culture.