navK-12 Digital Resources
These resources contain a variety materials, including lesson plans and primary sources, useful for k-12 education. AAS open-access digital collections and online exhibitions make an array of primary sources available.
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Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere Educational ResourcesThese videos and lesson plans explore the art, artifacts, and themes of Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere, an exhibition curated by AAS staff members Lauren B. Hewes and Nan Wolverton. Special thanks to the committee of K-12 educators who served as advisers and created content for this project: Karen Hoyt, Grade 5 Teacher, Thoreau Elementary School (Concord, MA); Timmary Leary, Visual Arts Curriculum Liaison, Worcester (MA) Public Schools; and Jane Merritt, History and English High School Teacher, Bancroft School (Worcester, MA). |
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Humanities in Class Digital LibraryThe Humanities in Class Digital Library, sponsored by the National Humanities Center, provides access to the best instructional resources and scholarly materials in support of humanities education. Resources are tagged by subject matter, topics and material type, making it easy to discover and combine content you need from institutions you trust, including the American Antiquarian Society. Register for a free membership to access the resources. |
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The Letters of Abigail Adams: An AAS Illustrated InventoryThe American Antiquarian Society (AAS) holds a collection of over 200 letters written by Abigail Adams. The letters in this collection are addressed almost exclusively to Abigail’s sister Mary and Mary’s daughter, Lucy Cranch Greenleaf (1767-1846). The text of many letters has been unavailable online until now. This illustrated inventory also marks the first time digital images of these letters have appeared online. |
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The Massachusetts SpyA facsimile copy of the May 3, 1775 issue of The Massachusetts Spy, or American Oracle of Liberty is accompanied by a worksheet. |
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The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865The history of America has always been intimately entwined with the history of communications media—and that has always been changing. This exhibition broadly explores the interconnectedness of American news media, in all its formats, with changes in technology, business, politics, society, and community from 1730 to 1865. |
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Photographs of Tuskegee Institute: An AAS Illustrated InventoryThe American Antiquarian Society holds a small collection of fifty-six photographs depicting life in and around Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, ca. 1890-1915, taken by an unknown photographer. The campus, now known as Tuskegee University, of the school is depicted here during the tenure of the school’s first president Booker T. Washington. Here, African-American students, both male and female, are seen in the various schools on campus learning practical skills including nursing, dairy, sewing, teaching, farming (cotton and sugar cane), mattress making, blacksmithing, printing and laundering. The collection also includes group portraits of students and teachers. There are also images of the other buildings on and near the school's campus, including former slave quarters and a plantation house. |
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Taught By LiteratureTaught by Literature is a collaborative project honoring Black author and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s lifelong commitment to education. Black women intellectuals have always contributed to public debates, published their ideas, and created movements for social change—but their work is not as well-known as it should be. Taught by Literature celebrates Dunbar-Nelson’s legacy by recentering Black women writers, beginning with Dunbar-Nelson herself and extending to other Black women from the Harlem Renaissance and earlier. This web resource makes accessible a digital edition of The 'Steenth Street Stories, an extraordinary unpublished short story collection written by Alice Dunbar-Nelson based on her work at the White Rose Mission in the 1890s. |
