More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. For an overview of what's available here at FREE, please vis

Family stories are very rich; the stuff of literature and film. Edison/Fareira High School students, predominately Caribbean in origin, will make a real contribution to history because few Caribbean voices have become part of the written record. When stud

Welcome! On this journey, you will assume the role of historical detective and search for clues to America's past in American Memory, the historical collections of the Library of Congress. You will investigate photographs and eyewitness accounts of immigr

Birds still sing from the trees, and the Potomac River continues to rumble as it rushes through the Great Falls. Other sounds from the past can be imagined if one stands quietly on the towpath of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The shovels of immigrant wor

This site is part of "The Story of Corn" website. This sections contains lots of facts about soil & farming inventions. It is very creatively & interactively designed for students' enjoyment.