Jefferson Peace Medal,
United States Mint, 1801.
Gift of Joseph R. and Ruth Lasser,
Acc. #2003-102.
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Jefferson's West
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Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quote of the Month
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Jefferson's West
April 14, 2005
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Jefferson's West
Long before he became the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson had dreamed of sending explorers across North America. He was fascinated by the prospect of what could be learned about the geography of the West, the lives and languages of the Native Americans, the plants and animals, the soil, the rocks, the weather, and how they differed from those in the East.
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Primary Source:
Jefferson's Letter to Meriwether Lewis
On June 20, 1803 President Thomas Jefferson gave instructions in a letter to Captain Meriwether Lewis on what he expected Lewis and Clark to learn on their journey west.
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Teaching
Strategy: Preparing for the Expedition
Most of the writings and programs about the Corps of Discovery focus on the expedition itself, but what about the origins of and preparations for the expedition?
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including:
—Hands-On History: Soldier's Haversack
—Nature, Art, and Science (Video & Web Content)
—The Eye of the Beholder (Lesson Unit)
—Discovering the Past Through Archaeology (Classroom Simulation)
—Archaeology: Revealing Our History (Video & Web Content)
—Archaeology for Young Explorers (Book)
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Teaching
News
NCHE "Make History Strong in Our Schools" Day
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
This nationwide media event is designed to raise awareness about the urgent issue facing our nation in which history is being crowded out of the curriculum, and to underscore that making history strong in our schools is not just an educational issue, it's a patriotic issue. Our democracy depends on it.
Main Event: 2:30-3:00 pm, U.S. Capitol Steps, Washington, D.C.
Speakers include:
Senator Robert Byrd (WV)
Senator Lamar Alexander (TN)
Senator Edward Kennedy (MA)
Princeton Historian Theodore Rabb
With costumed interpreters George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
(from Colonial Williamsburg and American History Theatre)
For more information, visit www.history.org/nche.
Quote
of the Month
"What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy all the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent."
--Rutherford B. Hayes,
U.S. President, 1857 |
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