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Indigenous Hawaiian woman in costume

Picturing Hawai'i

Picturing Hawai'i is a new curriculum from the Honolulu Museum of Art. The comprehensive Teacher Resource Book and the accompanying six images show you how to use works from the Museum's collection to supplement your lessons in history, fine arts, language arts, math, and science.

Launchpad: Getting to Know the First Amendment! (K–5)

The First Amendment guarantees several types of freedom of expression and rights to citizens of the United States, including:

Freedom to practice the religion of your choice
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Right of public assembly
Right to petition the government

Read through the following situations and choose which of the freedoms or rights described in the First Amendment is being exercised:

Launchpad: Getting to Know the First Amendment! (6–12)

The First Amendment guarantees several types of freedom of expression and rights to citizens of the United States, including:

Jewish Museum of Maryland

Experience the Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Jewish Identity exhibition, which examines the diversity of Jewish eating and uncovers the messages in this cuisine.

Launchpad: "The May-pole of Merry Mount," by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Created April 30, 2012

photo of Robert Smalls

Visualizing Emancipation

Visualizing Emancipation is a comprehensive map and timeline illustrating the slow decline of slavery in the United States. It provides quick access to thousands of primary source documents in connection with this timeline.

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Launchpad: Henry David Thoreau's Essay "On Civil Disobedience"

Created April 24, 2012

image from Slavery by Another Name

Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

This is an expansive multidisciplinary collection of EDSITEment resources on the antebellum and Civil War era of American history.

Literature of the Civil War

Read and discuss some of the great American writers and their work in the mid-19th century. This feature explores the themes of slavery, the role of women, and the experience of war.

Planting the flag on Iwo Jima

"The War" on PBS

"The War," directed by Ken Burns, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns.

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