Explains how Edgar Degas painted impressions of things he saw in his painting, Race Horses at Longchamp. Also describes the content of the painting and gives a short biography of the artist. Students can answer questions about the...

Through a series of six activities, students read about, connect to, and draw conclusions about the immigrant experience, via personal experience and a collection of resources, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," oral...

With the help of digitized primary documents -- pictures, photograph, recordings, and written accounts -- learners will explore and define what the "American Dream" meant for people over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...

This site features photos and artifacts from the life of one of the most dynamic and controversial First Ladies in U.S. history, as well as a virtual tour of her home.

Photo of Amiri Baraka, biography and selected works.

From the National Museum of American History this is a description and analysis of the photography of expatriate Englishman Eadweard Muybridge. "Freeze Frame: Muybridge's Photography of Motion" iclude's examples of Muybridge's work...

Comprehensive wildlife site provides extensive data on the Grizzly Bear. Discover more about its diet, population, range, behavior and more. Be sure to click on the video icon to watch a short clip on this amazing animal!

What angles can you see in these photos of Olympic sports? Can you estimate them? This challenging activity is aimed at older primary pupils at Key Stage 2.

A website featuring a collection of images from NASA. Collection includes images of planets, comets, nebulae, galaxies, stars, sun, and spacecrafts.

A well-indexed collection of NASA images taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Images include the spacecraft itself prior to launch and all of the solar system objects this incredible mission has visited.

This NASA page is a collection of thumbnail images of Europa taken by the Voyager and Galileo missions. Thumbnails link to low and high resolution image files and complete caption files. Images are excellent examples of various surface...

Basic information about the Old Mormon Fort and an accompanying lesson plan for grades 5-12.

Brief biography with photo from The Nation. Lists major works of art criticism by Arthur Danto.

Family Chronicle provides information concerning photos from the 1850s-1900s. Details the background around the first photographs taken in the United States. Identifies what objects within the photograph can help determine the time...

Set of 40 images of primary source documents from the Center for Legislative Archives that explore congressional action on woman suffrage from 1865 to 1920.

New analysis of data returned by the Mariner 10 mission. Includes several photo images. Examines the possibility of volcanism in the history of Mercury and comparisons to Hawaiian and Lunar volcanic events.

This site provides a wealth of information regarding space exploration. Content includes spaceflight history, real-time data, shuttle information, a gallery of photos, and more information from the NASA archives.

Primary source documents, including photos and text, help students understand the time setting of "The Great Gatsby" and, in turn, create their own piece of historical fiction. in the form of a newspaper project.

Exhibit documents the critical role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to turn Germany into a totalitarian state driven to annihilate its enemies. Includes a gallery of primary source documents and artifacts, such as posters, books,...

Original photos, art work and primary source documents portray life inside a Japanese internment camp in the United States during World War II.

Share in the stories of seven men and women from Prince Edward as they relate their experiences during World War ll. Listen to Bob Johnson as he tells of his harrowing experience in Burma, after being shot down, and spending 22 days in...

A comprehensive collection of primary source documents, maps, photos, and more relating to Tom Thomson's death.

This 4th grade unit introduces basic concepts of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and to historical analysis processes. Following a trade book and video documentary overview of the 1920s and 1930s, students examine photos, letters,...

Basic data on indium, including isotopic information along with a nice list of minerlas containing indium and links to the minerals (photos are there). Good site.