What can objects tell us about the experiences of those involved in creating and profiting from the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and those who were kidnapped and sold?
What can objects tell us about the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and their relationships to the paradox of slavery and freedom in the new United States?
What can objects tell us about the experiences of those involved in creating and profiting from the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and those who were kidnapped and sold?
What can objects tell us about the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and their relationships to the paradox of slavery and freedom in the new United States?
What can objects tell us about the experiences of African Americans as understood through foundational documents that defined the political, economic, and social realms of the Early Republic?
What can objects tell us about the experiences of African Americans as understood through foundational documents that defined the political, economic, and social realms of the Early Republic?
What can objects tell us about the experiences of enslaved and free African Americans and their experiences and participation in the American Civil War (1861–1865)?
What can objects tell us about the experiences of enslaved and free African Americans and their experiences and participation in the American Civil War (1861–1865)?
These downloadable activity booklets invite caregivers and educators to support children’s positive identity development while also growing their language and literacy skills with activities, museum objects, and new words
These downloadable activity booklets invite caregivers and educators to support children’s positive identity development while also growing their language and literacy skills with activities, museum objects, and new words
Making a Way Out of No Way: Smithsonian Learning Lab
This Learning Lab Collection asks students to analyze documents, images, and objects that give insight into James Baldwin’s life as a transatlantic commuter and use objects to understand how they impacted his work and writings
This collection is designed to spark conversations with children about activism and what children and adults can do to help make their communities, schools and the world better, more fair places for all people
What’s something you love learning about? Have you learned to do something new recently? How have you taught someone else? Use school-related objects from the National Museum of African American History and Culture to start a conversation!
This Learning Lab Collection asks students to analyze documents, images, and objects that give insight into James Baldwin’s life as a transatlantic commuter and use objects to understand how they impacted his work and writings
What’s something you love learning about? Have you learned to do something new recently? How have you taught someone else? Use school-related objects from the National Museum of African American History and Culture to start a conversation!
This collection is designed to spark conversations with children about activism and what children and adults can do to help make their communities, schools and the world better, more fair places for all people