http://www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/index.html
SmartFun Online is a resource for teachers and students developed by the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village using images, objects, and documents from its collections. Events by the decade in the nineteenth century are featured in the link "1750–1939 Timeline." Menu items also include Living Under Enslavement: African Americans on Hermitage Plantation and links to additional resources.

http://www.thinker.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/index.html
Teachers' Guide to American Art, developed by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, includes works of art from colonial times to the Civil War that enhance the American history curriculum.

http://www.nga.gov/kids
George Catlin traveled extensively throughout North America in the 1830s and visited South America in the 1850s, painting hundreds of Indians and keeping detailed records of his journeys. Students can see works by Catlin by checking out the Gallery's NGAKids Web site and clicking on the painting by George Catlin. "George Catlin's Paintings of Native Americans" section teaches students about the artist and his travels and takes them through the activities of choosing an Indian name, face painting, and creating a headdress.

http://www.nga.gov
The National Gallery's Web site offers in-depth information for teachers on sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an analysis of the Shaw Memorial, an overview of the time period, and related lesson plans and activities.

http://memory.loc.gov
American Memory, a resource for teachers on the Library of Congress Web site, features more than ninety digital collections on everything from nineteenth-century bookmaking, farming, and technology to Civil War campaigns. Click on the "Learning Page" for an orientation to the site and an explanation of how to teach United States history and culture using American Memory's lesson plans and activities.

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/oregontrail.html
This Idaho State University site focuses on nineteenth-century pioneers on the Oregon Trail, where a big wave of migration began in 1843 and ended in 1869 with the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The trail was the only practical route for settlers to cross the mountains into the western United States. Links include "All About the Trail," "Historical Sites on the Trail," "Fantastic Facts," and a "Trail Archive" that includes travel diaries with firsthand accounts of the experience.

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
The American Civil War Homepage lists thousands of sites on the Civil War.

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (published in 1868) or Little Men (1871).
Little Women was the first children's novel written in America to become an enduring classic. Both books give a sense of nineteenth-century life for young people.

Harvey, Brett. (Deborah Kogan Ray, illustrator). Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860s.
New York: Holiday House, 1995.
A young girl relates the hardships and dangers of traveling with her family in a covered wagon from Illinois to California during the 1860s.

Hest, Amy. (P. J. Lynch, illustrator). When Jessie Came Across the Sea.
Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1997.
Thirteen-year-old Jessie's story of immigrating to the United States from Eastern Europe in the 1800s is similar to the ones that millions of immigrants had in the years after the Civil War.

Moore, Kay. (Anni Matsick, illustrator). If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War.
New York: Scholastic Trade, 1994.
This book tells, from both Northern and Southern perspectives, what life was like—especially for children—during the Civil War.

Panzer, Nora, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Art from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New York: Hyperion Paperbacks, 1994.
This collection of American poetry covers two hundred years of American life, history, and art. Brief biographies of the writers and artists are included.

Vaughn, Marcia. (Larry Johnson, illustrator). The Secret to Freedom.
New York: Lee and Low Books Inc., 2001.
Great Aunt Lucy tells a little-known aspect of the Underground Railroad—quilts of various patterns that were used to give vital information to slaves planning to escape.

Awareness Series: American Art
[Cat. #VC125] (25 min.)
This video comprises short studies of four of the artists represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, including George Catlin and self-taught painters. Segments may be used independently in any order or combination.

The Shaw Memorial: The Power and the Glory of Public Art
[Cat. #VC213] (30 min.)
This video tells about the history, literary connections, and artistic significance of the monument. Archival photographs, documents, and location footage of related sites provide additional content.

Winslow Homer: The Nature of the Artist
[Cat. #VC148] (29 min.) (with viewer's guide)
The video deals with this American artist's work from his early illustrations of the Civil War, his picturesque scenes in the country and at the shore, to the powerful images of nature that characterize his mature and late work.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment
[Cat. #063, 20 slides and illustrated booklet]
Students can learn more about the first African-American infantry unit from New England to fight for the Union during the Civil War.

The Inquiring Eye: American Painting
[Cat. #TP312, 20 slides, 14 color prints, timeline, and booklet]
This packet gives an introductory survey of American painting from the colonial period to the early twentieth century.