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A Physical Frontier–America’s Movement West

Find resources for National History Day related to America's movement across the physical frontier of the West.

Grades: 6 - 12

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The Life of a Dragoon

Use primary sources to learn about dragoons and their lives on the frontier.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 8:50

Life at Thornhill Farm: Making Cornbread

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for making cornbread.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 7:32

Life at Thornhill Farm: Baking Apples

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for baking apples.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 7:31

Life at Thornhill Farm: Making Soup

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for making soup.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 16:10

Life at Thornhill Farm: Making Butter

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for making butter.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 5:23

Meet Frederick Bailey, a Buffalo Soldier, Portrayed by Historical Re-enactor Edwin Bailey

Hear the story of one buffalo soldier, as told by an historic re-enactor.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 4:11

Firsthand History 19th Century: The American Frontier

Use the power of primary sources to learn about life on the American frontier with historians, scholar, and historic re-enactors.

Grades: 3 - 5

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A Child’s Life on the Frontier

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier homestead and explore what daily life would be like for children on the frontier.

Grades: 5 - 9

Duration: 59:42

History in the First Person: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion

Go back in time through the power of primary sources and hear from individuals who worked, struggled, discovered, and persevered as America expanded westward between 1830 and 1890. Learn from histo...

Grades: 5 - 9

Duration: 60:44

Making Butter in the 19th Century

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for making butter.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 5:06

Life at Thornhill Farm: Using the Smokehouse

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier homestead and learn the uses for the smokehouse and how meats were smoked.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 5:33

Hear the Story of Frederick Bailey, a Buffalo Soldier, Portrayed by Historical Re-enactor Edwin Bailey

Hear the story of one buffalo soldier, as told by an historic re-enactor.

Grades: 6 - 8

Duration: 4:11

Re-enactor Edwin Bailey Shares the Story That First Got Him Interested in Buffalo Soldiers

Learn about the buffalo soldiers of the U.S. Cavalry.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 1:19

Hear from re-enactor Edwin Bailey on What Got Him Interested in History and Historical Re-enactments.

Learn about the importance of studying history with re-enactor Edwin Bailey.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 0:44

Re-enactor Edwin Bailey Describes How He Created His First Person Buffalo Soldier, Frederick Bailey

Find out about the research process used by re-enactor Edwin Bailey.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 0:51

Using a Smokehouse

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier homestead and learn the uses for the smokehouse and how meats were smoked.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 5:15

Re-enactor Edwin Bailey On the Historic Research He Did to Create His Character of Frederick Bailey.

Find out about using primary sources to better understand history with re-enactor Edwin Bailey.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 0:57

You Are Here – St. Louis’ Old Courthouse

Take a step back in time to the American frontier of the 1800's in St. Louis as you tour its Old Courthouse in St. Louis and learn how law was dispensed as the nation moved west.

Grades: 5 - 12

Duration: 25:21

You Are Here – Fort Belle Fontaine

Take a step back in time to life in late 18th and early 19th century on the American frontier in St. Louis as you tour Fort Belle Fontaine in St. Louis.

Grades: 5 - 12

Duration: 27:56

Life of a Dragoon

Use primary sources to learn about dragoons and their lives on the frontier.

Grades: 3 - 8

Duration: 8:50

Explore! Life of an Explorer

Why explore? Students get a chance to answer that question for themselves and listen to the answers of others as they meet a mountain climber and go back in time to the world of Daniel Boone.

Grades: 3 - 8

Duration: 29:16

Life at Thornhill Farm: Making the Cornbread

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for making cornbread.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 7:32

Making the Apples

Travel back in time to an 1820's American frontier kitchen and see the process for baking apples.

Grades: 3 - 5

Duration: 7:13

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