Last Updated on October 11, 2020
Teaching resources
- Around the World in 1896
- How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market
- Abraham Lincoln Primary Source Activity Book: transportation page
- Trains and Travel: Then and Now
- What Do Trains Do? Exploring Local History through Maps
- Featured Sources: guided primary source analysis activities
Primary source sets
- Transportation image set
- Transportation maps
- Films & webcasts related to transportation
- Oral histories related to transportation
- Life history mentioning transportation
- Historical texts related to transportation
- Historical newspaper coverage: modes of transportation
PSN curated primary source collections
- Air Balloons & Airships
- B&O Railroad
- Cable cars
- C&O Canal
- Erie Canal
- First American Automobile Race
- Rails & Robbers
- Transcontinental Railroad Completed
- World Transportation Commission
- Charles Lindbergh
- Designer Raymond Loewy
- Nellie Bly Circles the Globe
- Wright Brothers First Flight
Library Picture This Picture to Go blog posts
This lesson could be stretched toward Human Geography. Especially by asking questions such as how did the railroads change the environment? What innovations were necessary to extend rails through America’s multifaceted environment? What was the affect on time?