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Investigating the First Thanksgiving
I found a link on my state library’s website that offers an online resource flash application that investigates many details about Thanksgiving entitled “You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving”. It’s professionally built by the folks at Plimoth Plantation (www.plimoth.org) with loads of multimedia interactivity. With much to do, see, here, read, and click on, this would [...]
Thanksgiving: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance
Thanksgiving Its Origin, Celebration and Significance
as Related in Prose and Verse
By Robert Haven Schauffler
This free historical book, written in 1915, features over 200 pages of information (in the form of stories and poems) the American Thanksgiving Day. It would be a great addition to any November curriculum!
Download this entire book for free here.
Free History Book: Poems of American History (700 pages)
Poems of american history By Burton Egbert Stevenson
This amazing poetry anthology, written in 1908 , offers poems written about America from Colonial times up through the turn of the 1900’s. With 700 pages of poetry, there are literally hundreds of poems about any historical American subject you can think of! It offers a very valuable [...]
