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Teaching Resource

Dashes and Dots: A Product of the Nineteenth Century

Overview:

Students will examine primary sources including letters, a patent, photos, and diagrams to identify and describe the technological invention and development of the telegraph that evolved during the nineteenth century. 

Background:

Prior to 1830, communication across the country was limited to overland mail, which took approximately a month to reach its destination, or by the pony express, which...

Teaching Resource

Differing Views of Pilgrims and Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century New England

Background Wampanoags

Much of what is known about early Wampanoag history comes from archaeological evidence, the Wampanoag oral tradition (much of which has been lost), and documents created by seventeenth-century English colonists.

The Wampanoag people have lived in southeastern New England for thousands of years. In 1600 there were as many as 12,000 Wampanoag who lived in forty villages. Both oral tradition and archaeological evidence suggests that Native peoples lived in the area for 10,000 years. Wampanoag...