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Watercolor of the Algonquian town of Secotan on the North Carolina coast: bark-covered longhouses along a path, fields of corn, a central fire and people gathered in a circle.

Grades 3–6

Indigenous Nations of North America

Meet the many distinct Native nations of what is now the United States: their governments, farming, trade, colonization and tribal sovereignty today.

Black-and-white photograph of a young girl in an apron standing barefoot between two long rows of spinning machines in a cotton mill.

Grades 3–6

The Industrial Revolution in the United States

How factories, machines, railroads and the telegraph changed American life in the 1800s, and what it meant for workers, children and immigrants.

Black-and-white photograph of a dark weathered timber-frame house with a steep roof, a central brick chimney and later side additions, surrounded by bare trees.

Grades 3–6

The New England Colonies

The New England colonies for kids: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Puritan life, town meetings, trade and Native nations.

Sepia photograph of a family posed in front of a house built from blocks of sod cut into a hillside, with horses, a table and a cow standing on the grassy roof.

Grades 4–6

Westward Expansion and the Pioneer Era

How the United States grew west from 1803 to 1890, seen through pioneers, Native nations, Mexican Americans, Black homesteaders and Chinese railroad workers.