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About one-third of Patriot soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill were African Americans (according to The Battle of Bunker Hill on the EDSITEment resource American Memory). Census data also reveal that there were slaves and free Blacks living in the North in 1790 and later years. What were the experiences of African-American individuals in the North in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War?

The Index of American Design consists of approximately 18,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative art objects from the colonial period through the 19th century. Produced between 1936 and 1942, this visual archive reflects the expanding interest in American material culture that began to emerge at that time. The CD includes more than 350 images selected from 11 subject areas ranging from costumes to woodcarving, as well as an overview of the project's history illustrated with archival photographs. -It is possible to borrow any of their teaching packet materials from the NGA for an extended period of time. 

In the years after the war, Lee would be lionized by the defeated Confederates as the embodiment of all they had fought for and lost. Even a Northerner like Gamaliel Bradford Jr.-a prolific Massachusetts-born writer sometimes called "the dean of American biographers"-took up the tradition, venerating Lee for his chivalry and gentility in the popular 1912 biography Lee the American. In a preview published in the August 1911 Atlantic, Bradford paid tribute to Lee's humility and heroism and to his graceful acceptance of defeat.

The monumental Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment commemorates the first African American infantry unit from the North to fight for the Union during the Civil War. The relief, by the 19th-century American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, depicts Colonel Shaw and the 54th marching into battle. This was the regiment whose courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, was recounted in the movie Glory. --Part of this packet is downloadable

Interview with James G. Basker on the history of antislavery writings in American history

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Indian House School Programs A replica of a house which survived the 1704 attack on Deerfield, activities include: Fireplace Cookery (seasonal), Colonial Life, Native American Life (in a bark wigwam, weather permitting), Textiles, Taverns, Historic Lights, Dame School (a 17th-18th C. school lesson), Early Farming, Stenciling (seasonal), and Neighbors and About Town (two different tours of the center of town). The Indian House Children's Museum is also open to the public during the summer and early fall.

Teacher's Guide: Japanese American Internment Site includes primary sources

Massachusetts history including colonial times and Native Americans with field trip opportunity.

Stories, photographs and images about clashes between the U.S. Army and American Indians after the Civil War.

Charlotte Forten, an educated young African American woman from a prosperous Philadelphia family, joined the project in 1862, moving to the island of St. Helena, where she served for two years as a teacher of former slaves. While there, she kept a detailed account of her experiences, which she sent to her friend, the activist and poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Deeming her observations worthy of wider attention, he passed them along to The Atlantic's editor, James T. Fields, who published them in two installments in 1864.

Based on an exhibition of decorative, ceremonial, and utilitarian objects produced in the late 18th and 19th centuries by the native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Northern Plains, this packet explores how their dramatic and dynamic artistic styles evolved.

For almost 5,000 years-from about 3000 BCE to 1500 CE-the prehistoric Indians of the woodland areas of midwestern and southeastern North America fashioned utilitarian and ceremonial objects from shell, stone, metal, wood, and clay. This program discusses the cultural and aesthetic significance of these ancient artifacts. Illustrations accompany the text, which also includes maps showing the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian period sites where the pieces were excavated.

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