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About This Site, Help and Information Pages

• Tailor Your Visit lets you personalize interpretive information at this site.
• Site Introduction is an introdution to this site.
• Project Funders tells you who funded this project.
• History of the Project is about the process of creating this site.
• Project Scholars lists the historians and scholars who advised us.
• Production Credits lists all the people and institutions who created this site.
• Make History! with a donation to Memorial Hall Museum.
• Tech Help and Information explains some of the technical features and requirements at this site.
• Feedback lets you contact our technical staff or our curatorial staff to give them feedback, ask questions or report a problem.
• Site Search searches all the pages at this site.
• Side-By-Side Viewing describes how to view more than one page at a time.
• Printing Help explains how to get the best print results from this site.
• Glossary is a list of all glossary words used at this site and their definitions.
• How to Read Old Documents is an essay about primary documents and objects and how to learn from them.

Online Collection

• Highlights of the Online Collection - select a thematic group of highlights from our collection:
  Art, Religion, Children, Entertainment, Military, Work, Documents or Rituals.
• Simple Search - simple search criteria that perform a broad and inclusive search of our collection.
• Advanced Search - specific, curatorial search criteria to perform a detailed search of our collection.
• Search Tutorial - a tutorial for learning how to conduct successful searches of our collection.
• Exploring the Online Collection - describes how a search is conducted.
• Civil War Newspaper Index- an on-line index of thousands of articles that appeared in the Greenfield, Massachusetts, Gazette and Courier during the Civil War.
• Search Help - instructions for using our search engine to find items from the Online Collection.
• How to Use Look Closer - detailed instructions for using our image zooming feature.

Turns of the Centuries Exhibit

The exhibit is organized along the following themes and time periods:

Themes	"Turns"	Subthemes
Family Life	1680 -1720	Child Life Gender Roles Education Customs Getting Things
	1780 -1820	Child Life Gender Roles Education Customs Getting Things
	1880 -1920	Child Life Gender Roles Education Customs Getting Things
Native Americans	1680 -1720	Place in Time Two Worlds Point of Contact
	1780 -1820	Place in Time Two Worlds Point of Contact
	1880 -1920	Place in Time Two Worlds Point of Contact
African Americans	1680 -1720	Struggle for Freedom Working Black Yankees
	1780 -1820	Struggle for Freedom Working Black Yankees
	1880 -1920	Struggle for Freedom Working Black Yankees
Newcomers	1680 -1720	New Groups Working Beliefs
	1780 -1820	New Groups Working Beliefs
	1880 -1920	New Groups Working Beliefs
The Land	1680 -1720	Agriculture Industry Understanding Landscapes Public Space Private Space
	1780 -1820	Agriculture Industry Understanding Landscapes Public Space Private Space
	1880 -1920	Agriculture Industry Understanding Landscapes Public Space Private Space

In the Classroom

Curricula

• For Upper Elementary Classes:
  Everyday Life in Early New England and The Lessons of 1704
• For Middle School Classes:
  R.I.P. - A Grave Undertaking
• For High School Classes (still under development):
  The Nile of New England: A Study of the History of a Connecticut River Valley Town Over Three Centuries

History Lessons By Teachers – short lessons for students created by teachers using this site.

Civil War Roll Call – Links to Civil War-related artifacts, documents, videos, lessons, activities and more from throughout this web site.

Teachers’ Best Picks – A new online collection by and for teachers of resources for teaching historical themes and topics identified in the Massachusetts Kindergarten—Grade 12 standards for history and social studies.

 

Online Activities

• Learning To Look
• Discovering the 18th Century Craftsman - "Agreeable to His Genius: John Partridge Bull" (1731 -1813)

Background History Essays for Teachers - essays for teachers gathered together from all four curricula.

Things To Do

• Dress Up - an interactive feature exploring clothing in earlier eras.
• First Person - Twentieth-century history as told by people who lived it and made it.
• Map to African American Historic Sites - an interactive map of Deerfield reveals information about 18th century slaves. Also available: a printable PDF walking tour map of African American Historic Sites in Deerfield.
• Now Read This! - try transcribing some old manuscripts.
• Magic Lens - move the Magic Lens over a manuscript to reveal what it says.
• Objects in the Round - Rotate objects from our collection to see them from every side.
• Video Demonstrations of Early American Tools - brief videos that explain how tools from the past worked.
• Exploring New England Architecture - learn about historic house styles from New England's past.
• Send an E-Postcard - Choose a picture from our collection and make an electronic postcard to send to a friend.
• Chronologies - set up your custom chronology by selecting a theme and a time period.
• Activities from Turns of the Centuries Exhibit - explore objects, pictures and documents featured in our online exhibit "Turns of the Centuries".

My Collection - lets you collect items from our Online Collection.

People, Places and Events

• People, Places and Events - listed alphabetically
• People - listed alphbetically or chronologically
• Places - listed alphabetically
• Events - listed chronologically or alphabetically

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