Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Now and Then and Back Again: Study of Transportation
By using a slideshow presentation and a Conestoga wagon project, learners will experience different ways people have conquered the human and social need for transportation in America. Students will begin by studying ancient and Native...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Auto Safety History
America on the Move explores the role of transportation in American History highlighting its role as a vital part of our business, social, and cultural history. This section provides an overview of the history of automobile safety...
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Geography of Transportation: Map 12: Auto Trails of Florida, Ca. 1924
Lessons for students K-12 using historical maps teach students about the history of travel and tourism by car, identifying the technological and economic changes taking place in the 20th Century.
Digital History
Digital History: Accelerating Transportation
A thorough look at the transportation revolution that occured in the early 1800s. Read about the building of roads, canals, and the spread of railroads. Find out about the surprising opposition to improved transportation, and see how...
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Transportation 1: The Bicycle
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, the bicycle.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Steam Engine: Transportation 19th Century
This collection uses primary sources to explore the steam engine and transportation in the nineteenth century.
Other
Highway History
A large collection of articles chronicling the history of our nation's highways. Includes articles showing the history from very early highways to the interstate system. Lots of related articles, pictures, and even songs about roads.
Other
Virtual Museum of Labrador: History
Become acquainted with the "rich and diverse history" of the people of Labrador. Over the years there has been a variety of cultures that have inhabited the land including the Inuit, Metis, Europeans, and more. Information is also given...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Us History: The American Transportation System
Read and study the sources about the American transportation system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you read the four sources, think about how the development of the transportation system in the United States...
Other
Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour: Wagons and Stagecoaches
Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon. There is a link at the bottom...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Transportation Changes [Pdf]
"Transportation Changes" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the history of transportation by land and by sea. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining...
Other
National Transport Library: Urban Transportation Planning
This site provides extensive information regarding the history of U.S. urban transportation planning.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Alabama Department of Archives and History: Changes in Transportation Over Time
The student will compare and contrast the different modes of transportation during the early 20th century and present-day America using historical photographs. Included are links to photos, a printable worksheet, and extension and...
Other
Amon Carter Museum: Texas Transportation
In this lesson, students will analyze the effects of transportation on the settlement of Texas.
Library of Congress
Loc: History of Railroads and Maps: Railroad Maps 1828 1900
This history of the American railroad from the Library of Congress also provides an understanding of how maps and mapmaking were so closely related to the growth of our railway system.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks along with other early protestors sparked a yearlong boycott of the Montgomery bus system that culminated in the desegregation of public transportation in Alabama and throughout the country.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Business and Transportation
Looks at the many features of the Texas economy that make it one of the healthiest in the country, including, the financial sector, the oil industry, electricity, telecommunications, transportation, and various natural resources.
Gabriel Dumont Institute
Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture: The Red River Cart
The Red River Cart, an invention of the Metis, played an important role in the settling of the West by improving transportation of goods. Cart making became an industry for the Metis later on. This article explores the history of the Red...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Cta Car 6719 From Scrap to History
Follow the story of Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) rapid-transit car 6719 from the day it was delivered to the transit agency in 1959 to the day it was placed in the Smithsonian's new transportation exhibition, America on the Move in 2003.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: American Railroads in the 20th Century
A brief history of the last century and more of American railroads, from the early locomotives from the mid 1800s to today's fast passenger trains.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Transforming the Waterfront: San Francisco and Oakland, Ca.
Containers-steel boxes stuffed with goods-and the systems for transferring them between ships, trucks, and trains transformed commercial shipping. Containerization streamlined freight handling and slashed the cost of transporting cargoes...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Roadside Communities: Ring's Rest, Muirkirk, Maryland
The exhibition explores historical moments in the area of transportation. As more people took to the road, clusters of roadside businesses sprang up to accommodate motorists' needs including roadside cabins. Ring's Rest, located about 20...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Suburban Strip: Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 1949
Exhibition focusses on the relationship between transportation and suburbia in the mid 1920s until after World War II when many grocery stores, car dealerships, and other businesses moved out of the city to the suburban strip.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Fifteen Objects That Changed Postal History
Useful information about the history of the postal system and about the changes in postal and transportation technologies that have made the U.S. Postal Service what it is today.