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Final Farewells: Signing a Yearbook on the Eve of the Civil War

(Grades 9–12)

From Vaquero to Cowboy

(Grades K–12)

Transforming Language: Xu Bing’s Monkeys Grasp the Moon

(Grades K–12)

The Japanese American Internment: How Young People Saw It

(Grades K–12)

Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits

(Grades K–12)

Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators

(Grades K–12)

Carnival Celebrations: Masks

(Grades K–12)

Lunar New Year Stamps

(Grades K–12)

Creating Hawaii

(Grades K–12)

Textiles of the North American Southwest

(Grades K–12)

Latino Family Stories

(Grades K–12)

Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War

(Grades 4–12)

WWII on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility

(Grades 4–12)

Native American Dolls

(Grades 3–8)

Stories of the Wrights' Flight

(Grades 3–8)

Every Picture Has a Story

(Grades 3–8)

Revolutionary Money

(Grades 3–8)

Lewis and Clark

(Grades 3–8)

Establishing Borders: The Expansion of the U.S., 1846-1848

(Grades 3–8)

Decoding the Past: The Work of Archaeologists

(Grades 3–8)

From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office

(Grades 6–12)

Japan: Images of a People

(Grades 3–8)

Teaching from Objects and Stories: Learning from the Bering Sea Eskimo People

(Grades 3–8)

What Is Currency? Lessons from Historic Africa

(Grades 3–8)

Winning the Vote: How Americans Elect Their President

(Grades 3–8)

Letters from the Japanese American Internment

(Grades 3–8)

200 Years and Counting: How the U.S. Census Tracks Social Trends

(Grades 4–12)

A Ticket to Philly—In 1769: Thinking about Cities, Then and Now

(Grades K–8)

Africa Behind and Beyond the Headlines

(Grades 4–12)

Small Worlds: Stamps as Storytellers

(Grades 4–8)

Stamps as Storytellers (And the Story of Stamps)

(Grades 4–8)

Small Worlds: Stamps as Storytellers (1977)

(Grades 4–8)

Celebrating the Smithsonian’s Birthday

(Grades PreK–3)

Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother’s Dress and Other Clues to the Life of Annie Steel

(Grades PreK–8)

Blacks in the Westward Movement

(Grades PreK–8)

Building Bridges: Living in a Diverse Society

(Grades PreK–3)

Celebration!

(Grades PreK–3)

In the Playtime of Others: Child Labor in the Early 20th Century

(Grades 4–8)

“Give It Your Best!”: Civilian Contributions to the Home Front

(Grades 4–8)

Perfectly Suited: Clothing and Social Change in America

(Grades 4–8)

Of Kayaks and Ulus: The Bering Sea Eskimo Collection of Edward W. Nelson

(Grades 4–8)

The Constitution Lives! How It Protects Your Rights Today

(Grades 4–8)

Ethnic Folklore in Your Classroom: Traditions, Tales, and Treasures from Tijuana to Timbuktu

(Grades PreK–12)

Great Explorations: To the Ends of the Earth—and Beyond

(Grades 4–8)

Nineteenth-Century Family Portraits: Looking into Home, Sweet Home

(Grades 4–8)

"Hello, America!” Radio Broadcasting in the Years Before Television

(Grades 4–8)

History Close to Home: Creating Your Own Special Museum

(Grades PreK–12)

India—Where Remarkable Differences Are Ordinary

(Grades PreK–3)

In or Out? Make Up Your Mind!

(Grades PreK–3)

Life in the “Promised Land”: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940

(Grades 4–8)

Old Photographs: Windows to the Past

(Grades 4–8)

Talking Houses: What They Can Tell You About the People They Shelter

(Grades 4–8)

The Survival Game After Columbus: Pigs, Weeds, and Other Players

(Grades 9–12)

What Makes Time Tick?

(Grades 9–12)

Trains and Railroads: From Wooden Track to Amtrak

(Grades 4–8)

Using the Yellow Pages as a Teaching Resource

(Grades 4–8)

Visions of the Future

(Grades 4–8)



	*Washington's Head-Quarters 1780. At Newburgh, on the Hudson,*
	by an unknown artist, after 1876. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson. This image is from the lesson plan Revolutionary Money.