Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Explore the crafts that the African American culture exported from native African lands, basketry and cultivation of rice. With the lessons provided in the downloadable document, students will weave together history, geography, social...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Archaeology Program: The Earliest Americans Theme Study
This exhaustive study of Paleo-Indians examines many of the sites where evidence of their occupation is found across the North American continent. This National Park Service study looks at evidence in found in projectile points,...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Havasupai
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the native American people the Havasupai.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Iowa
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the native American people, the Iowa.
University of North Carolina
Center for the Study of the American South
Southern Cultures is a quarterly magazine that has published over seventy issues, with articles by many well-known scholars and authors. It explores the history and cultures of the American South. If your library or educational...
Other
Utah History to Go: American Indians
Online course material on southwest cultures specific to the state of Utah. Lesson contains questions and concepts for students and links to corresponding information. Students can link to articles, exhibits, historical photographs and...
Other
International Quilt Museum
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln has created a graduate program in Textile History with an emphasis on quilt studies to nurture the appreciation of quilts as an art and for their cultural significance in history. Their International...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
Other
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Continuing Revolutions
America was victorious in the Revolutionary War, but now faced a slew of problems while trying to set up our new nation. Study how we attempted to solve the problems of establishing a government, forming our economy, meeting the needs of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 6: 1865 1898: Laissez Faire: Gilded Age
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Laissez-faire during the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Other
Matewan Online: The Hatfield and Mc Coy Feud
Part history, part folklore, what is the real story of the Hatfields and McCoys? Site provides the story of the American Romeo and Juliet and an excellent study of American folk culture. Go to other areas of this site for more history of...