Online resource designed to improve students' knowledge of standard topics in U.S. History and to improve their ability to understand material culture objects as types of historical evidence. Includes ...

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ve put together a top 10 list of the museum’s most exciting Latinx history objects. Clara de Pablo and Carlos Banegas Santos The National Museum of ...

The ultimate historical investigation, very old objects can take you on a journey that predates history itself. Many different items fall under this heading, and we have arbitrarily limited the ...

Spotlight on a vintage WWI cartridge and what it reveals about the earliest days of the struggle against communist Russia. Students share the stories behind a favorite object or family artifact and ...

Introduction: why historiography matters -- History and things in the twentieth century -- Karl Lamprecht and the "material turn" c. 1885 -- Things as historical evidence in the late Renaissance and ...

The objects filling our homes rarely prompt consideration of their origins. Each item, from the coffee maker brewing your morning cup to the mattress supporting your nightly rest, emerged from ...

History can build and destroy nations, create and end wars and help society wrangle with ethical obligations and failures. But when teachers reduce it to an endless scroll of names and dates that have ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The History Colorado Center is working with a new strategy lately, building its major museum exhibits around the resources it holds in-house, namely the ...