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Online Exhibits

Emerging America’s online exhibits model engaging uses of primary and secondary sources from Western Massachusetts museums and archives. These stories serve as starting points to address major national themes and events in American history. Each exhibit features a select set of documents, maps, artifacts, and images, placed in context through secondary sources from expert scholars. Students can dive directly into the stories, or explore dynamic maps and multi-media. Within each exhibit, teachers can also access lesson plans, links to standards, and guidance on teaching methods.

Woodcut print of Sojourner, wearing a white cap, with a white shirt under a coat.
Radical Equality: The Northampton Association of Education and Industry

Immerse yourself in an extraordinary community of Utopian abolitionists and reformers of the 1840's.

Woodcut print of the Steamboat Barnet in the Connecticut River. One smokestack belches black smoke. The boat has a paddle wheel.
Steamboat Barnet: Emerging Industrialism

Explore the 1826 voyage of the first Connecticut River steamboat into Massachusetts, opening a new era of industrial and economic expansion for this part of New England.

A print shows workers making rifles and a Springfield Rifle in detail.
The Springfield Armory: Forge of Innovation

Investigate the central role of the Armory in leading the Industrial Revolution of the 1800's through innovative engineering and organization. (External site). 

Upcoming Workshops


This one-hour workshop empowers Special Education teachers to foster supportive attention to disability and to support integration of disability history across…
This course introduces exemplars of best practice pedagogy for English Learners in History and Social Studies classrooms. It demonstrates dual-language-learner-…
Emerging America and the National Council for the Social Studies present a webinar to strengthen high quality instruction of students with disabilities.  Regi…