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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: Anheuser Busch Brewery

For Students 9th - 10th
The buildings in Anheuser-Busch's brewing district date from the late 1800s and are made of brick. Many are decorated with gargoyles and other such figures on the exterior. In addition, the company has also added new buildings and...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Washington's Headquarters

For Students 9th - 10th
Headquarters of Washington during the final years of the Revolutionary War; Dutch stone house; oldest building in Newburgh; first-ever property designated as a historic site by a U.S. state.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Rabideau Ccc Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rabideau CCC Camp was a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. The camp was established in 1935 as a project of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. The camp, one of 2650...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: General Lew Wallace Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Lew Wallace was a Civil War general, governor of the New Mexico Territory, and minister to the Ottoman Empire, and he is best known for writing Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He used this building as his study from 1895 until his death...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Abel and Mary Nicholson House

For Students 9th - 10th
A rare pristine example of a Delaware Valley patterned brick building.
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Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)

Royal British Columbia Museum: Thunderbird Park

For Students 3rd - 8th
This online exhibit explores the transformation of British Columbia's Thunderbird Park, a park established to display totem poles and other carvings by the First Nations' people. Interactive "maps" documenting the park's history from...
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Digital History

Digital History: Conquering Space

For Students 9th - 10th
A good review of how the rise of nationalism led to western expansion, support for federal funds to build infrastructure, and the protection of new American industry.
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History.com: What Was Flight 93's Target?

For Students 9th - 10th
When the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field on September 11, it was 20 minutes flying time from the nation's capital. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46 minutes into United Airlines Flight 93, a nonstop flight from Newark, New...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Nm: Bandelier Ccc Historic District

For Students 9th - 10th
Civilian Conservation Corps buildings.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Nathan and Mary Johnson Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
These buildings, now housing the New Bedford Historical Society, belonged to a free African-American couple active in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. They notably took in activist Frederick Douglass after his...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ny: Eleanor Roosevelt Natl Historic Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Eleanor Roosevelt developed property; place that she could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women; includes a large two-story stuccoed building that housed Val-Kill Industries; would become...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Iroquois Country, 1768

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York showing the Iroquois Six Nations lands as established by the Fort Stanwix treaty of 1768. The map show the expansion of English colonial settlers into the upper Hudson River Valley...