The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- social studies (United States history)
- Provider
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Special requirements
- Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for the teacher's resources. The site is viewed using Macromedia Flash, however there is a non-flash version.
Legal
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This interactive website uses a timeline and examines conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War and continues through the present war in Iraq. An overview of each conflict is accompanied by a movie, slideshow, and artifacts.
Viewers can browse the collection of artifacts or search by conflict or category. The exhibit also includes a teacher's guide which will help students understand how wars have been the "defining moments in both the history of the nation and the lives of individual Americans."
