The Dust Bowl and resulting western migration that occurred in the 1930s is explored in this video [5:44] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning. The agricultural devastation and ensuing migration...

Companion site for a PBS film version of Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams." Contains a great interactive timeline of Fitzgerald's life as well as video clips of people discussing aspects of his works.

Informational site discusses the technology of Native American crafts and the meaning of those crafts. Touches on everything from pottery to clothing.

Have fun playing three games that were once popular among Native American children. Provides instructions, objectives, and a materials list.

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...

Visit this resource to find a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help middle school students discover the diversity in African American poets and create their own voice in poetry. This resource is in PDF form.

Explore recent scientific investigations in sleep and dreams. Keep a journal to track sleep and dream activity, and find examples of ways sleep and dreams are used as images in popular culture.

Teach your students how to make some crafts that Native American children might have used for their toys.

This creative and collaborative project is centered around the poetry of Langston Hughes, and incorporates art, multi-cultural ideas, and student performance. The site is full of examples, information, lessons and explanation.

This is a collection of videos and media galleries about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works especially "The Great Gatsby."

Discover how connecting Santa Cruz, California to the national railroad network in the late 1800s helped the town prosper and change.

Find out how many veterans returning from World War II were able to realize the American Dream of home ownership, and see how this resulted in the growth of suburban areas across the nation.

A lesson that helps students examine the immigrant experience from an adolescent's point of view by exploring how the American dream motivates students to succeed.

A collection of over one hundred archival video clips highlighting significant events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement since the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. There are ten collections covering...

Comprehensive teaching unit on tensions of the Cold War era: conflicts between domestic prosperity and unfulfilled expectations, ideals of conformity and individualism. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student...

Over one hundred video clips, culled from NBS News archives, document events and issues of the civil rights era, from 1954-68. Also includes contemporary perspectives on civil rights, with videos of town hall-style conversations about...

A very detailed site on the history and culture of the accordion. You'll find brief biographies on talented accordion players, a timeline, fun facts, and more!

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides lengthy biographical information on Jacob Lawrence in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.

Primary source documents include photographs, documents, cartoons, and advertisements that help to paint a picture of this unique time and place in American history.

The religious life of Native Americans relied in large part on dream interpretation. This article focuses on the beliefs of the Iroquois.

Text of the short story "The Lady of All Our Dreams" by American author James Branch Cabell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Read a short literary text titled "The Dream Catcher," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.

Read the full text of the novel "What Dreams May Come", an early classic in fantasy fiction, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton.

This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.