Boston skyline

Official site of Boston's historic Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile, brick-lined route that leads you to 16 historically significant sites - each one an authentic treasure. Explore museums and meetinghouses, churches, and burying grounds. Learn...

Memorial to the 1845-1850 Irish Potato Famine (Boston)

Financial District (Boston)

Park Street Church (Boston)

John Hancock Tower (Boston)

Bunker Hill Bridge (Boston)

Custom House Tower (Boston)

Trinity Church (Boston)

Trinity Church (Boston)

Rowhouses, South End (Boston)

Chinatown (Boston)

City Hall (Boston)

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the British Acts that lead to the Boston Tea Party and to the writing of the Declaration of Independence. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passages describes the Boston Tea Party and the laws passed that led up to this historical event. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...

This resource features a day in the life of a little blue penguin. Students and teachers can observe these unique birds from the penguin cam.

A 34-page student journal of worksheets to accompany a lesson plan unit on designing buildings that will withstand an earthquake. [SEE: http://eie.org/sites/default/files/es_educator_guide_2014_10_09.pdf] First, they work on simple...

In-depth information about the Red Scare that started in the United States at the end of World War I, and ended in the early 1920s. Discusses its history, including strikes in Seattle and Boston, causes, and results of the anti-communist...

The Tea Party movement was organized in February 2009, in protest to Obama's stimulus package. This article discusses the movement's link to the original Boston Tea Party, personalities identified with the the movement and their aims....

This site offers the history of the Middlesex Canal that connected Boston to the Merrimack River at Lowell. Take some time to check the excellent links as well.

This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.

With the National Gallery of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland Public TV developed programming and this website to explore the early years of Picasso's artistic development from his talent at 11 until early adulthood....

This site provides lesson plans and unit ideas for teaching about the American Revolution. Look for suggestions about specific people or the Revolutionary War in general.

A plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) on the Charlestown peninsula in Boston Harbor (June 17, 1775), showing the American and British positions, the breastworks and redoubt built by the Americans, the artillery positions of...