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| Science Matters: Ericsson's FollyMost people thought it would sink, but John Ericsson's odd little craft certainly did the job.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIn the years leading up to the American Civil War, the territory of Kansas was the scene of extensive guerrilla warfare. James Henry Lane led a band of free-soil raiders.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIn the years before the Civil War bleeding, Kansas produced two guerrilla leaders who laid waste to the countryside--inflaming passions on either side of the question of slavery--James Henry Lane and William Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Lane and Quantrill IIIIn the bloody run up to war during the 1850s, the Territory of Kansas attracted its share of drifters seeking to take advantage of the conflict over slavery. One of those was William Clarke Quantrill.Grades 3-5 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Hollywood during the Civil WarIt’s thought that the first Virginian who died in the civil war was buried in Hollywood Cemetery. He was a young man, not even twenty when he was cut down on the battlefield. His body was ceremonially escorted across the countryside and placed in Hollywood during a solemn but reverent occasion.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Well Known Hollywood ResidentsOver 75,000 people are buried at Hollywood Cemetery. Before the middle of the twentieth century, the vast majority of private burials were for white and well to do citizens. Most are ordinary people, but national figures also reside there.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 Health |
| Monuments and Symbols of Hollywood CemeteryThe people buried in Hollywood employed artisans to build iron or stone reminders that cleverly tell small stories about the dead and sometimes about the grieving. In its own way, each monument also contributes toward an overall effect on the landscape.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science | Art |
| Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine on Round TopIn early July 1863, the contending forces of Union and Confederate converged on the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. It was Gen. Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. On the far left of the Union line was a strategically located hillock known as Little Round Top. If Lee's troops could take and hold that hill, he might roll up the Union line and carry the day. On July 1st, alert Union cavalry units began to gather and blocked his path thus starting the decisive three-day battle that would decide the Civil War.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Roles in the CourtThere is this idea that yes, England is far off. To some degree, Williamsburg is far off, but the people who serve in the local community are the connection with those far off governments. And the people who are appointed to serve on the court are from that community.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Revolution and the CourtsEven as the Revolution gathered in strength, the basic court system changed very little. Although the Declaration of Independence sought to liberate the states from Britain, Jefferson wanted to continue the basic rule of English law.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
