Mormons and Westward Expansion: A Guide for Pre-Service Teachers
Teachers guide students to create interactive digital maps detailing the migration of Mormons using Library of Congress primary sources.
Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Westward the Course of Empire"
Watch Suzannah Niepold guide TAH teachers through analyzing the differences between two versions of Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way.
Westward Expansion: Image vs. Reality
East or West? See if you can determine which region produced these images on westward migration!
Manifest Destiny: Creating an American Identity
Discover how the concept of a “Manifest Destiny” shaped American perceptions prior to and throughout the 19th century.
Go West, Young Woman!
Men and women both settled the West. Answer these questions on women’s records of the experience.
Making of America
Provides more than 1.5 million pages of text in an effort to digitize more than 11,000 volumes and 100,000 19th-century journal articles.
Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark
Follows Jefferson’s life, political participation, and accumulation of scientific geographical knowledge from 1735 to 1804.
Century of Lawmaking: Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
Covers Congressional documents from the nation’s founding through early Reconstruction.