History Explorer Results (215)
American Enterprise: Market Revolution 1820s-1850s
Investigate the market revolution in the 1800s through the stories of five Americans from the Merchant Era. Optimized for desktops and laptops.
American Enterprise: Ramsay's Ledger
Primary Sources, Interactives & Media
Decode a historic ledger that belonged to William Ramsay, a merchant in Alexandria, Virginia in the mid-1700s.
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Reference Materials, Interactives & Media
What happens when a people decide to govern themselves? America's national treasures come to life in this compelling exhibition that examines the bold experiment to create a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." American Democracy: A Great Leap of Fait
American Enterprise: The Business of Slavery
Learn more about the business of slavery by exploring four historic documents from the United States slave trade.
Computer Pioneers Video Series
Through innovative ideas and inventions, computer pioneers transformed the ways people worked, played, and communicated in the 1900s. In this video series, learn about 6 pioneers in computing.
The Great Migration: An American Story
An artistic account of the migration of African-Americans North during the civil war.
The House On Fire: The Story of the Blues
Craig Awmiller
Traces the history of the blues from its African roots through the 90s, with a focus on key artists ranging from Louis Armstrong to Muddy Waters and B.B. King.
The Jazz Fly
Matthew Gollub
A fly, who speaks jazz, seeks directions to town from animals and insects who respond to him with their sounds. The fly uses these sounds to jazz up his band's music.
The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History
David K. Fremon
A look at racism between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
The John Bull: A British Locomotive Comes to America
David Weitzman
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School,Middle School
A detailed history of one of the earliest steam locomotives in American history, rich with intricate pen and ink drawings
The Journal of Ben Uchida
Barry Denenberg
Late Elementary School,Middle School
The story of a 12 year old prisoner in one of America's Japanese internment camps during World War II
The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
William Durbin
Late Elementary School
A young boys experience of working on the Transcontinental Railroad. (Part of the My Name Is America series)
Mildred D. Taylor
Middle School,High School,Adult
In the stories Taylor tells the stories of her African American family in the Deep South during and after the Civil War, a time of ugly, painful racism.
Susan Miho Nunes
A little boy becomes part of a Chinese-American community as he works to restore an old Chinese dragon.
The Legend of the Teddy Bear
The legend of how Teddy Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a cornered bear inspired the name of a popular children's toy.