Educational Resources Available from the Powers Museum
for use by educational groups/teachers (on reservation basis)

Educational resoures available from the Powers Museum for use by educational groups/teachers (on reservation basis) These materials have been gathered for program use by the museum over the past years. Classroom use subject to copyright law as applicable.

E-mail for further information or to reserve. pmuseum@ecarthage.com

History and Social Studies — Miscellaneous Topics
History Alive! "Dissenters and Idealists" (plays)/L
History Alive! "History Alive! Heroes and Adventures" (plays)/L
History Alive! "History Alive! Moments of Decision" (plays)/L
Modern Marvels: Statue of Liberty/V
Sending Messages: Reading & Writing in America, 1820-1940/L & S
Kirsten's World — 1854/L

Arts (Music, Fine Art, Film and Theater)
Band Music in American Life/L &E
Circus World Museum: Where Circus History Comes to Life/V
Come to the Fairs/V
Early Films of Thomas Edison/V
Films of 1903 to 1908/V
Shirley Temple Festival/V
Thomas Hart Benton (artist)/V [Note: older students only, should be previewed before showing due to language]
Artists at Work: Film on the New Deal Art Projects/V
Movie Palaces/V
James S. Scott: Ragtime Composer/V [Student produced video/NHD project from Harrisonville, MO]
World War II Music Video, vol 1&2/V
Brown Wax Sampler, Music of 1891-1903/CD
Two-Minute Wax Cylinders [music of early 20th century]/CD

Decorative Arts, Domestic Activities, Fashion & Crafts
Food in Kansas: Cookbook for Young Kansans/L
Growing Up Victorian: Family Activity Book/L
Guide to the Study of a Victorian Household/L
Guide to the Study of Childhood, 1820-1920/L
Molly's Craft Book [1940s]/L
Arts of the American Home/L &S
Stitch in Time: Clothing the Middle Class Family; 1850-1910/L & S
Growing Up Victorian: Family Activity Book/L
Vanity Fair: Four Centuries of Fashion from Kathleen Walsh Costume Institute of the Metropolitian Museum of Art/S
Quilting/L & S [several titles including history, patterns, stories on, etc., please inquire]

Holidays
Historic Halloween Celebrations: Teacher Resource Guide/L
Valentines Day/V
Biography: Santa Claus/V
Missouri Christmas Trivia/L
Victorian Christmas Cob Web Party Kit/L
Epiphany Surprise Christmas Cake Story Kit/L
Holiday Victorian Images [for making Christmas decorations]/L
(If you are interested in Holidays, the reference library has other books available to teachers only.)

Military & Home Front (Civil War, WWI, WWII)
Civil War: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox/L
Civil War: Garments, History, Legends, and Lore/L
Civil War Era: Activity Book/L
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War/L
Everyday Life: Civil War With Cross-curricular Activities/L & C
Civil War/S & Ca
Civil War Vignettes/Ca
World War I Home Front; Teachers Guide and Document Kit/L & E
1944 Molly — Teachers Guide to Six Books about World War II/L
Forties [1940s]/L
Pearl Harbor Warriors: The Bulger, The Pilot, The Friendship/L
Pearl Harbor Child: A Child's View of Pearl Harbor from Attack to Peace/L
Remembering the Home Front/L
Through My Eyes: A Childs View of World War II/L
World War II Days/L
World War II Home Front; Teachers Guide and Document Kit/L & E
We Were There: Letters from the Battle Front (includes CW, WWII & Vietnam)/L
Family Gathering [Japanese Internment/World War II]/V
Pearl Harbor Child Shares Eyewitness Stories of the Pearl Harbor Attack/V
World War II/V
Post War USA/V
World War II Battlefront: Atlantic Campaign; 1939-1941/V
World War II Battlefront: Atlantic Campaign; 1942-1944/V
Homefront: 1940-1941/V
Homefront: 1942-1943/V
Homefront: 1944-1945/V
America at War: The Home Front (Praise the Lord and Pass the A Ammunition/V
Rosie the Riveter/V
Hollywood at War/V
Aftermath (World War II)/V
Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941- 1945/E & CD
World War II/CD
Kenneth Wofford; Tuskegee Airman/V
Camp Crowder Celebration/V
World War II Music Video, vol 1&2/V
Sounds of History from the National Archives — WWII/Ca
Mining & Geology Roustabouts & Roughnecks: True Tales of the Arkansas Oil Boom/L

Missouri History
Missouri Jography/L
Missouri Bingo/L
Missouri Black History Resource Guide/S
World on Display; 1904 St. Louis World's Fair/V
Battle of Carthage [Civil War Museum orientation video]/V
Carthage, Missouri: Come Experience Our History/V
Harold Bell Wright: Miracle of the Ozarks/V
Vintage Panoramic Maps [includes Carthage MO 1891] featuring Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska maps 1854 - 1921/CD
Jasper County History/CD [includes maps, books, misc.]
Joplin History, Part I/V
Selected Speeches of Harry S Truman, 1945-47/Ca
Camp Crowder Celebration/V
Kenneth Wofford, Tuskegee Airman/V
Heritage of the Ozarks/L
Exceptions that Created the Rule [Missouri Women]/Exhibit on CD

Nineteenth Century
Guide to the Study of the Gilded Age/L
Growing Up Victorian: Family Activity Book/L
Guide to the Study of a Victorian Household/L
Victorian Arkanas/L
Heritage of the Ozarks/L

Route 66 (Highway 66)
Bones of the Old Road/V
Route 66 Revisited/V
Greetings From Route 66: Video Postcard/V
Journey Down Route 66/V
Route 66: America's Highway/V
Great American Footrace/V

Travel & Tourism (including Ozarks Region)
All Aboard! Train Travel in America, 1850-1930/L
Harold Bell Wright: Miracle of the Ozarks/V
Great American Footrace/V [Highway 66 Footrace]
Horatio's Dive [1903 Trans-continental Auto Race]
Heritage of the Ozarks/L

Twentieth Century
Progressive Years: 1898-1917; Teacher's Guide and Document Kit/L & E
America 1900; vols 1&2/V
Focus on 1910 -1919/V
1920s: Teachers Guide & Document Kit/L & E
1930-1939/V
Woodrow Wilson: American Vision for the 20th Century/L
Camp Forgotten: Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan/V
Herbert Hoover: American Adventure/V
In Their Own Voices: U S Presidential Elections of 1908 & 1912/CD
Samantha's World - 1904/L
Selected Speeches of Harry S Truman, 1945-47/Ca
FDR: Nothing to Fear/Ca

Twenty-first Century
In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/2001/V

Western Exploration & Expansion
United States Expansion/V
To the Pacific and Back: Lewis and Clark Expedition/S
Lewis & Clark [PBS, 2 vols]/V
Lewis & Clark/CD
Wild West Days — American Kids in History/L
Stories of Young Pioneers in Their Own Words & Teacher's Guide/L
Breaking Ground: Story of Oklahoma's Settlement/L

Native Americans
Sacagawea-Birdwoman by Diane Moran/V
Native American and Influence on the US/V
History of Native Americans/V
Native American Life/V
Diaries in the Dirt: Archeology & the Plains Village People/L
Breaking Ground: Story of Oklahoma's Settlement/L

Womens History
Votes for Women/V
Louisa of Orchard House [Louisa May Alcott]/V
Fine and Long Tradition/V
Exceptions that Created the Rule [Missouri Women]/E
xhibit on CD Carthage Exceptions [Exhibits Mounts for above exhibit]/E
History of Woman Suffrage/CD (contains primary documents)
National Women's History Project — Women's History Month Kit/L

Titles are acquired year-round. Check back for additions involving Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, more on holidays, historic or pioneer crafts, and women's history.

Also, the museum is considering a "local history" field day in late September or early October 2006 at the museum with other agencies, museums and educational organizations. Please let us know if you would be interested in attending!

Traveling Trunks and other Display Materials for Loan Coming Soon! Click here to find what will be available starting Fall 2005.

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