Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the settling of the American West in the late 1800s and the challenges these settlers faced. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student oriented activities, and a timeline of...

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

Read and study the sources about the American transportation system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As you read the four sources, think about how the development of the transportation system in the United States...

Students will analyze the impact of the frontier on American life and the role Congress played in settling the frontier. Included are worksheets, Turner's Thesis, and reflection questions. Primary sources provided are petitions for...

Learning modules with primary resources explores how the West has been imagined as both America's manifest destiny and a wild frontier and examines the ways American Indian art and literature challenge these popular narratives.

Provides an update on the primary areas of research in bioengineering and bionics: eyes, ears, liver, hands, skin, blood, cartilage, and tendons.

This is a PDF of the information from LOC of the exhibition of America's move to its first West, that of the Ohio River Valley. Discussion includes these topics: Contested Lands, Peoples and Migrations, Empires and Politics, Western Life...

This essay discusses Frenchman Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813), who took the American name J. Hector St. John as an American citizen in 1765. His Letters from an American Farmer not only described the American...

Describes the various forces and events that shaped the expansion of the western frontier in the mid- to late 1800s.

What was it like to be a cowboy in 1867? Visit the Cooke Ranch and explore a cowboy's working and dwelling quarters. Play the interactive games to learn about the many aspects of daily life in the American West. (Click "Interactive...

Read about how the homesteaders on the American frontier added a little levity to their otherwise harsh frontier life, and in particular how women, how spent much time at home, worked to add variety to their lives. From a companion essay...

This 1-hour documentary presents a portrait of William Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill. A western frontier legend in the 1880s, his Wild West Show travelled the globe making the American West into the American story.

Read about the expansion of the frontier in and around Texas during the middle of the nineteenth century as the Civil War was coming to an end.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are legendary outlaws of the American West who robbed banks and trains. This is an account of their 1899 train robbery as reported in the June 8, 1899 issue of the Buffalo Bulletin.

This Teaching with Historic Places lesson effectively depicts the life of a pioneer woman and ways in which the Homestead Act impacted her life. The site includes lesson plans, inquiry questions, and photos that may be used in covering...

Through this activity, high school students keep track of what they eat everyday and compare their nutrient intake with the minimum requirements for good health.

Experience FES or functional electrical stimulation, through the eyes of a patient who lives it. Learn how doctors gave a paralyzed patient control over her muscles.

The resource examines the history of treatment for stress. Some topics included are shell shock, combat stress, post traumatic stress disorder, and Prozac nation.

This article on the history and development of the artificial heart examines past attempts at artificial heart transplant and looks at future research and development.

The interactive resource examines the plate tectonics, magnetic reversals, and continental drift of the Earth. An animation of the Earth's continental drift over the last 750 million years is included.

This is a lesson plan on the environmental aspects of economic development. Focusing on Brazil, the lesson takes students through the pros and cons associated with development and how multiple players are involved.

This Web site is a multimedia English-Russian digital resource that describes the American westward-Russian eastward explorations and their frontier meeting.

Original pictures of Westward expansion. Great activities and discussion questions for cross-curricular learning.

This resource by the National Humanities Center features a short story, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", by Stephen Crane about the closing of the American frontier.