America on the Move
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 3–12
- Subjects
- science (technology & innovation), social studies (United States history)
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Special requirements
- Realplayer or Windows Media is required for video portions of the site. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to download the Family Guide and Flash, to play the games.
Legal
This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.
America on the Move, a website of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, explores the role of transportation in American history. Through exhibitions, artifacts, images, and thematic articles, virtually “visit communities wrestling with the changes that new transportation networks brought. See cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national, and international economies. Meet people as they travel for work and pleasure, and as they move to new homes.”
This website is divided into three main categories: Exhibition, Collection, and Themes.
Exhibition invites kids to visit a series of eighteen different exhibits that tell the story through maps, images, and text of the expanding transportation systems around 1876 to the development of Route 66 during the 30's and 40's to the globalized transportation of Los Angeles in 2000.
In Collection search over a thousand artifacts and photographs in the online transportation collection or browse the collection through categories, era, and regions.
Themes is a gathering of feature articles written by historians and curators and cover such ground as "Chicago: The Transit Metropolis" and "A Nation of Immigrants: Latino Stories."
Additionally, kids can play games that help them understand some of the concepts addressed by this website, parents can print a visiting guide, and teachers can use the self-guided or classroom activity sheets.
