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Activity: Value of Achievement

Consider how different life achievements connect to cultural values.

Overview: Prosperity for All?

America was founded on the principles of equality, freedom, liberty, and respect for individual rights. But these ideals have not always applied to everyone, and many Americans have fought since the founding of this country to broaden those values so that they apply to all Americans.

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.

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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.

Painting of an outdoor setting with pond and trees, populated with characters on horseback and on foot along a path in the foreground and additional figures interspersed in the background.

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.

Painting of two-story wooden church with tall steeple, surrounded by small groups of people approaching with sticks and logs; detritus falling out of windows.

Object Story: Before the Burning of Old South Church in Bath, Maine

On July 6, 1854, an angry crowd set fire to this church in the town of Bath, Maine.

Five glass toy lamps in a variety of shapes, three with feet and bulbous or V-shaped reservoirs, another in a shape resembling a teacup, and another in the shape of a oval sphere.

Object Story: Toy Lamps

Blown glass lamps made for burning whale oil.

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Activity: Judgement and Group Belonging 

Consider what influences group behavior and the formation of in-groups and out-groups.

A comet descends through the night sky toward earth. On earth, a house with a telescope stands next to a grouping of trees.

Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings

“He had an uncanny capacity to combine art and science in such a way as to make substantial contributions to both fields.” Krystle Satrum, Assistant Curator, Jay T. Last Collection

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