The Waters House History Center contains Montgomery County, MD census records; genealogy texts; history publications; 350,000 photographs, largely from 1968 through 1999; an architectural collection; land surveys; newspapers; and Bibles. The oldest portions of the Waters House date to the 1790s.
The resource center offers research library access.
This website presents tools to help teachers incorporate visual evidence into their classrooms.
Users may want to begin with the Lessons in Looking section, which includes four essays, each authored by a scholar of art/visual culture and a historian, offering methods for analyzing visual materials and demonstrating the effectiveness of visual evidence for illuminating important themes in U.S. history. Topics include: race in Antebellum America, identity in colonial America, American identity in the Gilded Age, and African American visual culture in the mid-20th century.
The website also includes an annotated guide to the most useful visual resources available online, 13 essays by educators on their favorite image to use in the classroom; eight reviews of recent books, online exhibits, and articles that have provided new perspectives on teaching and learning about visual culture; and three archived and three ongoing forums on using visual evidence to teach colonial America, slavery, Jacksonian America, the Civil War, the American West, and the Great Depression and New Deal.
The Preservation Trust of Spartanburg seeks to preserve all architecture of historical import within Spartanburg, South Carolina. While the majority of the trust's programs target homeowners, educational opportunities are offered.
The trust offers guided and self-guided historic district walking tours, outreach presentations, information on historic color palates, and research assistance for historic homes and/or genealogy.
The local historical society, founded in 1961, opened the Elmore County Museum in a vacated Carnegie Library building in 1977. Built in 1908, the museum building is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Among the artifacts displayed inside are mining, agriculture, and railroad implements. The museum also focuses on the cultural heritage of the community, including Basque, Chinese, and Native American legacies.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Society brings together citizens interested in preserving and raising awareness of Lyndon's history. It work with public officials to ensure the preservation and accessibility of historical structures and records throughout the town and works to preserve manuscripts and artifacts from Lyndon's past.
The historical society holds special events and educational exhibits periodically, including traveling lectures and guest speakers for schoolchildren.
The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science involves the public in an active exploration of science, the arts, and local history. Permanent collections include Central Vallery Native American baskets and cradleboards and 19th-through-20th-century California landscape paints; temporary exhibits may be relevant to U.S. history studies.
The museum offers exhibits, film screenings, lectures, children's camps and workshops, tours for school groups, in-class outreach art workshops (grades 1-3), Visual Thinking Strategies outreach presentations and professional development training, and Met on the Move after-school programs.
The End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center presents the history of the Oregon Trail, one of the historically most widely used routes of migration within the United States. Its period of most concentrated use was the Great Migration of 1843, also known as the Wagon Train of 1843. The site includes a visitor's center and gardens with period plants.
The center offers interpreters in period dress, hands-on activities, exhibits, cedar carving demonstrations, and a garden.
When Europeans arrived in North American, they brought their own calendars and understanding of the passage of time. Native peoples, they found, related to time in ways both similar and very different. Decide whether the following statements on Native timekeeping practices are true or false.
1. Winter counts, kept by the Lakota people, mark each year in a Lakota band's history with a picture depicting an important event. For the year 1833, many Lakota winter counts show the same event: stars falling from the night sky.
True. In the winter of 1833, the Leonid meteor shower, 
visible each November, blazed with extraordinary strength. The falling stars caught the attention of people throughout North America, and many Lakota bands chose the shower as the event to stand for the year. Later in the 1800s, ethnologist Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) identified the pictures as standing for the meteor shower, allowing scholars to match the years of the winter counts with the European calendar.
2. Prior to introduction to European calendar systems, the Native peoples of Alaska used peg calendars, wooden calendars in which a peg was moved forward in a series of holes day by day to mark the passage of time.
False. Russian colonists and missionaries 
introduced peg calendars to the Native peoples of Alaska so that they could track the holy days of the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian contact with Alaskan cultures began in the 1700s, and settlement of the region, accompanied by cultural exchange, continued until 1867, when the U.S. purchased Alaska from the Russians. Peg calendars remained in use into the 20th century.
3. The Winnebago Native Americans recorded time using calendar sticks, in which notches were cut to signify important events, lunar cycles, years, and other units of distinction and division.
True. The Winnebago Native Americans did use sticks 
to record the passing of time in this manner. However, the use of calendar sticks was not limited to the Winnebago. Other Native American groups throughout North America used sticks, including the Pima, the Osage, and the Zuni. The markings on sticks and their daily and ceremonial use varied from region to region and people to people.
4. The Hopi calendar divides the year into four sections. Spirits known as katsinas (or kachinas) visit the Hopi people in two of these sections, alternating with the two sections free of the spirits.
False. The Hopi calendar divides the year into two halves, 
one beginning around the summer solstice (June 20th or 21st) and the other with the winter solstice (December 21st or 22nd). After the winter solstice, katsinam, benevolent spirits, visit the Hopi people, personated by Hopi men in masks and costumes. Following the summer solstice, the katsinam leave the Hopi again.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's online exhibit Lakota Winter Counts displays the images from 10 winter counts. Annotations describe what each image represents, and the website offers a teaching guide and other resources. Check the entries for the winter of 1833-1834 to see the counts' depictions of the 1833 meteor shower.
The website Alaska's Digital Archives includes a collection of digital resources, including photographs and documents, on Alaskan Native history. A photograph of a 1900s peg calendar, decorated in Aleut or Alutiiq style, can be found here.
The National Watch and Clock Museum provides a travelling trunk program that includes a "Native American Timekeeping Travel Trunk." For a $50 fee plus shipping charges, you can check out the trunk, which contains background material on calendar sticks, winter counts, and the Aztec calendar, as well as samples of and directions for related crafts.
Rainmakers from the Gods: Hopi Katsinam, an online exhibit from Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, follows the ceremonies of the Hopi year and includes pictures of katsina dolls associated with each ceremony.
To find more resources on Native American history and culture, check out the History Content section of our website. Select the section that corresponds with the material type you'd like to find—Website Reviews points you toward quality websites, Online History Lectures catalogs online audiovisual presentations, and History in Multimedia collects field trip possibilities from across the country. In the search boxes, choose "American Indians" from the dropdown "Topic" menu, or enter the specific keywords you'd like to find resources on in the "Keywords" box and hit "Submit."
The Upsala Area Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the farming community of Upsala, Minnesota. To this end, the society operates a museum located within the 1913 Axel Borgstrom House. Exhibits cover local and state history, as well as the area's Swedish heritage.
The society offers exhibits. The website offers historical photographs.