Teaching activities, historical documents, and photographs explore the issues of emancipation and military service. The following photographs, letters, drawings, and acts highlight some of the economic, social, and political factors that prompted thousands to migrate north to Alaska. Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire . Documents and teaching activities explore the impact of invention on the development of the West. Pages from the 1880 and 1900 census schedules, teaching activities, and valuable links relate to the Ingalls family and the census.
Failure is Impossible serve as valuable teaching tools.
The Zimmermann Telegram, 1917. The Unfinished Lincoln Memorial. A photograph of workers assembling the statue of Lincoln in 1920 inspires teaching activities about President Lincoln, symbolism, and memorials. The Don Henry Story. Additional documents augment the Teaching With Documents article about the Spanish Civil War in the March 1998 issue of Social Education .