Museum exhibits and programs
address standards for unifying concepts and processes strands
and inquiry.
U.S. History Content Standards
Three worlds meet (Beginnings to 1620)
National Museum of American Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
Colonization and settlement
National Museum of American Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
National Postal Museum
• Binding the Nation
Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• Within These Walls...
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
National Museum of the Amerian Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
National Postal Museum
• Binding the Nation
Expansion and reform (1801-1061)
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• Within These Walls...
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• Communities in a Changing Nation
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
National Museum of the Amerian Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
National Postal Museum
• Binding the Nation
• Moving the Mail
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• Field to Factory
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• Communities in a Changing Nation
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
National Postal Museum
• Binding the Nation
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• Within These Walls...
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• Communities in a Changing Nation
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
• America on the Move
• Field to Factory
National Museum of American Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
National Postal Museum
• Customers and Communities
• Moving the Mail
• The Art of Cards and Letters
• Philatelic Gallery
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
• James McNeil Whistler and Galleries of American Art
Hirshhorn
Museum & Sculpture Garden
• Rotating Museum Collections
National Air & Space Museum
• Milestones of Flight
• Early Flight
• Legend, Memory and the Great War in the Air
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• America on the Move
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
• Field to Factory
National Postal Museum
• Customers and Communities
• Moving the Mail
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
National Air & Space Museum
• Golden Age of Flight
• World War II
Aviation
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• America on the Move
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
• Field to Factory
• Within These Walls...
National Postal Museum
• Moving the Mail
• The Art of Cards and Letters
• Artistic License--The Duck Stamp Story
Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Rotating Museum Collections
National Air & Space Museum
• Space Race
• Apollo to the Moon
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• America on the Move
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
• Field to Factory
National Museum of the American Indian
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
National Postal Museum
• Artistic License--The Duck Stamp Story
• Philatelic Gallery
Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Rotating Museum Collections
National Air & Space Museum
• Space Race
• Pioneers of Flight
• Apollo to the Moonl
• Beyond the Limits
National Museum of American History
• Price of Freedom
• America on the Move
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• On Time
• The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
National Museum of American Indian
• Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories
• Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World
National Postal Museum
• Customers and Communities
• Moving the Mail
• Binding the Nation
• Philatelic Gallery
