Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Empire
This exhibition explores the origins, development, and eventual fall of the American empire and maps the diverse and rocky terrain of the American empire to show how it informs contemporary conversations on heritage, citizenship, racism,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Poster on the American Home Front
A collection of posters used on the home front during WWII to make the war a reality for the everyday citizen. Text accompanies the historical significant graphic images.
Other
Scribd: Texas Exes: Texas Civic Health Infographic
This infographic uses images and facts to compare the average Texan's involvement in civil and government issues to that of an average American.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Patriotic Labor: America During World War I
Take a look at the need for American labor during World War I. It provided second-class citizens, such as women and African Americans, a brief opportunity for better jobs that would help foment in them a desire for more and equal...
US National Archives
National Archives: Tokens & Treasures Gifts to Twelve Presidents
These gifts are unique records of each administration from Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton. Many of them are handmade artworks. Some are from well known artists and others from supportive American citizens.
PBS
The War: Plant a Victory Garden
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a poster from WWII that calls on citizens to help lessen the demand for store-bought food by planting a garden.
Curated OER
Library of Congress: Teachers: Chinese Immigration to the Us
Group portrait of three Chinese children standing in a room in Chicago, Illinois, each holding an American flag and a Chinese flag.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Route of the Panama Isthmian Canal, 1904
A map from 1904 of the Panama Canal showing terrain relief of the isthmus, noting the 'Canal always follows the line of the Railroad’ from Colon to the city of Panama. "For generations the Panama Canal had been the dream of man and for...
Curated OER
Mexicans Emigrate the United States in El Paso, Texas
Mexicans coming to the United States through an El Paso, Texas immigration station. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1938.
270 To Win
270towin: 1924 Presidential Election
Provides detailed electoral facts for the presidential election of 1924 won by Calvin Coolidge, the first presidential election in which all American Indians were citizens and thus allowed to vote.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Marquis De Lafayette
The Marquis de Lafayette, a French citizen who fought on the side of the Americans during the American Revolution.