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Overview: The Price of Progress
The notion that innovation and change leads to progress is at the heart of the American character, but Americans also value tradition. This unit explores a wide range of traditions and innovations in American society. When is progress worth the loss of tradition and certain ways of life?
Object Story: Painted Schrank
This wardrobe holds important clues about the identity of an early Pennsylvania family.
Everybody Collects
The kinds of objects, artifacts, and artworks that people collect communicate different ideas. They can be a record of events that happened in society.
Activity: Think like a Collector
Examine a museum collection for themes and commonalities and consider what the collection represents about a community.
The Common Good
Americans are known for their commitment to individual freedom: freedom to make their own choices, freedom to speak their mind, and freedom to come and go as they please.
Identity on Display
Among the many unique traits we have as humans is our ability create, learn, and share different ways of knowing our world.
Activity: Perspective Taking with Places and People in History
Use this activity to explore different points of view and perspectives depicted in historic artworks like The Burning of the Old South Church.
Object Story: Stitching Statements and Sentiments
Explore quilt patterns that reflect women’s perspectives on the world and current events.
Object Story: Landscape with Riding and Walking Figures, a River, and a Village (Overmantel)
Painting made to hang over a mantle depicting various people along a pathway.
Overview: Out of Many, One?
Americans have long created an identity based on distinct principles and values that define the country. This unit explores the tensions between being an individual and being part of a group or nation and provides insight into what it means to be an individual in America, today and centuries ago.