History Resources

Cultural Encounters: Teaching Exploration and Encounter to Students

Teacher Resources

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493

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Geography, Religion and Philosophy, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

A Jamestown settler describes life in Virginia, 1622

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Economics, Geography

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The surrender of New Netherland, 1664

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Geography

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682

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Geography, World History

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, 1693

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Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi, 1718

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Geography, World History

Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

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Art, World History

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

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Geography, Government and Civics, World History

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

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Economics, Government and Civics

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