LowellNational Historic Park: http://www.nps.gov/lowe and
Tsongas Industrial History Center: http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/index2.htm
The Lowell National Historic Site, a National Park Service Property, and the Tsongas Industrial History Center, at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Graduate School of Education, have partnered to produce a range of classroom materials and activities related to Lowell Mills, the textile industry, and American industrialization during the early nineteenth century more broadly. Of particular interest to this program is “Yankees and Immigrants,” which includes a curriculum guide and variety of activities encouraging students to think about employees as individuals, with their own goals, aspirations and challenges.
“A Woman’s Work is
Never Done,” American Antiquarian Society Online Exhibition: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/intro.htm
This exhibition brings together a
selection of images from the American Antiquarian Society's collections to illustrate many facets of American women’s work, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution. It includes sections ranging from domestic labor and education to factory labor and entertainment.
“Whole Cloth: Discovering Science
and Technology through American History,” Smithsonian Institution, Lemelson
Center for the Study of Invention and
Innovation: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/index.html
This site is designed for middle and high school teachers by historians of technology and secondary school teachers. It includes three independent modules with 11 hands-on activities with corresponding lesson plans, notes for teachers, primary source materials (images and documents), and a scholarly article by Thomas Dublin entitled “Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills.” The first module, Unit 2: Early Industrialization, most relevant for this program, examines early American industrialization through textile technology and invention.
“Teaching with Historic Places,”
National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service:
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) is a program of the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. Initially created in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, TwHP grew out of a desire by both organizations to expand educational outreach and encourage teachers to use historic sites as teaching tools. Lesson plan activities can be searched by location/state, theme, time period, skill, and curriculum or national standard. Of particular interest to this program are those on: “Commerce and Industry” and “Immigration” (listed under Lesson Plans, search by “themes.” Teachers might also want to search by place; try, Lesson Plan, Location/State, and then Massachusetts to find “Building America’s Industrial Revolution,” the fourth lesson plan listed).
Old Sturbridge Village:
http://www.osv.org/
OldSturbridge Village is the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast and includes more than forty original buildings, each carefully researched, restored, and brought to the museum site from throughout New England. The museum interprets the period 1790-1840, focusing on how everyday lives of New Englanders were transformed by the rise of commerce and manufacturing, improvements in agriculture and transportation, the pulls of emigration and urbanization, and the tides of educational, political, aesthetic, and social change. The section “For Teachers” under “Education Programs” includes a variety of primary documents and lesson plans, including early childhood, women’s labor, cloth making, mills and water power, several especially suitable for younger learners.
“Working Women: An Open Collections Program,” Harvard University Library: http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Women Working, 1800-1930focuses on women’s role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University’s library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including 7,500 pages of manuscripts; 3,500 books and pamphlets; and 1,200 photographs. It is searchable by keyword, theme, genre, and time period.
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