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Swift, Debra – 1991
Materials are presented for teaching elementary school students about the pioneer period in southern Indiana, 1800-1850. A project requiring students to create the travel journal of a pioneer family is featured. An outline providing basic facts about this era is included, as is a 17-item bibliography of sources for further research. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Maps
Hardesty, Carolyn, Ed. – Goldfinch, 1990
This issue of a magazine of Iowa history for young people focuses on early explorers and combined learning activities with informative articles. Sections in this issue include: "Where? What? Who?"; "Maps--long ago and recent"; "Every map answers at least two questions: Where? What?"; "Jolliet and Marquette";…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Geography, History Instruction
Kahl, Mary L.; Endress, Valerie A. – 1980
Following the slave uprising led by Nat Turner in 1831, the change in public sentiment compelled Virginians to speak openly in public and in the legislature about the institution they had guarded long in silence. The effect of Turner's insurrection was further conditioned by the growing sectional antagonism between the eastern and western portions…
Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Debate, Economic Factors, Moral Issues

Contosta, David R. – History Teacher, 1984
A college teacher discusses how in his U.S. history survey course he uses the buildings in Philadelphia to illuminate the principal forces of national history. For example, colonial buildings and street plans can help students understand the bourgeois character of early Philadelphia and of other American cities. (RM)
Descriptors: Architecture, Buildings, Community Resources, Course Content
De Boe, David C. – 1996
This annotated resource guide offers scores of teaching aids to enrich the teaching of Texas history and geography. This edition differs from its predecessors in several ways: videocassettes replaced the section on 16mm films; the section on "Traveling Museum Exhibits" was dropped because the items were too costly for use in the typical…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography
Wyoming Univ., Laramie. American Heritage Center. – 1999
This lesson, for grades 7-12, correlates with Era 8, Standard 3c of the National History Standards for United States History: "evaluate the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and assess the implication for civil liberties." The lesson provides background on the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Japanese Americans, Primary Sources, Relocation

Bonfield, Lynn Apolin – Social Studies Review, 1980
Provides excerpts from five primary sources concerning the lives of women in California from 1850 to 1942. Notes sources and includes discussion questions, as well as an oral history interview. (CK)
Descriptors: Family Life, Females, Interviews, Oral History

Lothrop, Gloria Ricci; Herczog, Michelle – OAH Magazine of History, 2000
Provides background information on the presidio, a frontier palace or garrison. Offers a lesson to help students understand the chronological context of events in presidial California in relation to developments in the English colonies and Europe. Includes four handouts. (CMK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Settlement, National Standards, Primary Sources
Stein, Alex – History Teacher, 2003
The Teaching American History (TAH) program began in 2001 as a bold new idea: that history content could be delivered directly to United States history teachers through ongoing partnerships with providers of history expertise. The program awards three-year federal education grants for up to $1 million to develop and carry out these professional…
Descriptors: United States History, Professional Development, Grants, History Instruction
Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. – 1988
This series of 41 pamphlets on selected Pennsylvania history topics includes: (1) "The Pennsylvania Canals"; (2) "Anthony Wayne: Man of Action"; (3) "Stephen Foster: Maker of American Songs"; (4) "The Pennsylvania Rifle"; (5) "The Conestoga Wagon"; (6) "The Fight for Free Schools in…
Descriptors: History, Pamphlets, Social Studies, State History
Atwood, Roy Alden – 1980
Journalism on the agricultural frontier of the Old Northwest territory of the United States was shaped by a variety of cultural forces and environmental factors and took on diverse forms. Bridging the gap between the two cultural forms of written correspondence and printed news was a third form: the handwritten newspaper. Between 1844 and 1854…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Journalism, Newspapers, State History
Schwartz, Eleanor E. – NJEA Review, 1979
Describes some books and media for New Jersey Studies, as well as some miscellaneous texts and reference materials. (SJL)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Instructional Materials, State History
Tripple, Patricia A. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2004
Family and consumer sciences professionals and others in Nevada contributed to their communities by collaborating on the Nevada Women's History Project. The mission of the Project is to recognize the roles and contributions of women of every race, class, and ethnicity in the state's history. Each state may place statues of two individuals in the…
Descriptors: Females, State History, Sculpture, Community Cooperation
Drake, Brian Allen – Great Plains Quarterly, 2003
Kansas is legendary for geographical monotony, for a landscape allegedly so absent of trees and relief that the state has become the butt of national jokes and a cultural synonym for flat. U.S. Forest Service researchers noted in 1999 that forests covered slightly less than 3 percent of the state. So prevalent is the idea of a treeless Kansas that…
Descriptors: Forestry, Physical Environment, Change, State History
Wesley, John – 1974
This simulation allows students to participate in situations and events similar to those experienced by pioneers who headed west in early wagon trains. Students face problems such as floods, droughts, blocked trails, snakes, Indians, and the lack of food. Students must make numerous individual and small-group decisions that provide them with a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies