This collection uses primary sources to explore the Hudson River School.

Learn about the Hudson River and the role it played in the westward and northward expansion of America (to the Great Lakes regions and to Canada) in the nineteenth century. Useful for understanding the importance of rivers as means of...

Essay on Emerson, Thoreau and the Hudson River School and the legacy it left. Section for guiding student discussion and scholar's debate.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the Hudson River School of American artists. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.

Survey the career and paintings of the Hudson River School in American painting (1835-1870).

Primary source documents tell the story of the Hudson River School founded by artist Thomas Cole.

A discussion of the Americanization of painting in the early 1800s with the artists who were part of the Hudson River School of Art. Read about the new audience for their paintings and the subject matter.

This resource presents an account of the life and voyages of explorer and navigator, Henry Hudson, who sailed and discovered for both the Dutch and English.

A retelling of Henry Hudson's historic voyage to New York in 1609, and up the river that would eventually bear his name.

"View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm, 1838" in an oil painting on canvis by Thomas Cole (American, 1801-1848), founder of the art movement known as the Hudson River School

Who was Henry Hudson? What happened to him? This one-page biography from PBS provides learners with these details and more.

Overview and biographical facts on the life of Henry Hudson who discovered the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait.

The story of the shrewd merchants and courageous explorers of the Hudson's Bay Company.

This image shows the Hudson River which runs through eastern New York. The photo was taken from a footbridge that crosses the river. For more information on rivers, check out the ten longest rivers in the world or our fun river facts for...

A map of the Hudson River area from Newburg to the Long Island Sound showing the Revolutionary War posts and towns along the river, including West Point, Peekskill, Verplanck's Point, King's Ferry, Stony Point, Haverstraw Bay, Tarrytown,...

A road map of New York along the Hudson River from Coxsackie to Berrytown, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing county lines, principal cities and towns, rivers, and is keyed to show the best auto routes, other auto...

A road map of New York along the Hudson River from Kingston to Poughkeepsie, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing county lines, principal cities and towns, rivers, and is keyed to show the best auto routes, other auto...

See how the creation of visual art in its many forms developed over the first half of the 19th century. In addition of the painters in the Hudson River School of Art, read about the beautification of natural spaces such as parks, and...

"The Captain's Job" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about a captain safely landing his plane in the Hudson River after birds had flown into the engines causing them to stop. It is followed by questions which require students...

Essay about the beginnings of Dutch exploration into the New World. The author describe the journey of Englishman, Henry Hudson, as he sailed reaching the north Atlantic coast of America, what is now Newfoundland and explored the river...

A biography of Henry Hudson (1565-1611), an English explorer and sea captain. He made four voyages in an attempt to discover a northern route between Europe and Asia. Hudson never found such a passage, but he sailed farther north than...

Find statistics about the many river systems of the world. Includes facts such as length, drainage area, cities, notable tributaries, and more. Also provides links to sites about some of the rivers.

Detailed third grade lessons help students understand what skills and knowledge were required in order to become an explorer. Includes specific lessons on John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Thomas Chambers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape and portraits. His landscape paintings famously depict the Hudson River...