Pathfinders

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Pathfinder

Library Quests

Use digital historical sources to investigate topics.

Examples of Pathfinder Activities

Below is a list of Pathfinder Activities created by teachers.

[Rachel Carson, head-and-shoulders portrait, speaking before Senate Government Operations subcommittee studying pesticide spraying]

[Cesar Chavez, half-length portrait, facing left]

Clemente, Roberto

Roberto Clemente

Douglass, Frederick

Frederick Douglass

Fuller, Margaret

Margaret Fuller

Hamer, Fannie Lou

[Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964]

Huerta, Dolores

Dolores Huerta holding Huelga ("strike") sign during first grape strike.

Hughes, Langston

[Langston Hughes, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding piece of paper in his hands, in Paris, France]

Invention Impact - Cotton Gin

Lummus Cotton Gins

Invention Impact - Steam Locomotive

Railroad at Landon, Maryland. Steam locomotive

Invention Impact - Steamboat

Steamboat Wharf, Washington, D.C.

Jemmy and the Stono Rebellion

Stono Inlet, South Carolina From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the survey of the coast of the United States. Triangulation, topography and hydrography by the parties under the direction of C. O. Boutelle, Assist., Coast Survey. Drawn by E. Willenbucher. Chas. G. Krebs, lith.

Johnson, William

Deep South / William H. Johnson.

Meeting of Governor Carver and Massasoit / drawn by H.L. Stevens ; eng'd. by Augustus Robin, N.Y.

[King (Metacomet) Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, d. 1676, full length, standing at treaty table with white men]

[John Muir, full-length portrait, facing right, seated on rock with lake and trees in background]

Ng Poon Chew : Chinese statesman and journalist.

Thomas Paine

[Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glass with right hand].

Pocahontas. (Bust). Engraving by Compton Holland in John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia ..., 1624, after Simon Van de Passe.

[Conspiracy of Pontiac]

Detail of A map of Virginia of 1612, showing Powhatan in the royal wigwam. He wears a crown of feathers

Reading the Declaration

"Original Rough Draught of the
Declaration of Independence"

Designer: Elizabeth McDowell
Subjects: Government, U.S. History
Grades: 10, 11, 12

Tecumseh, Ute Indian Chief

Thompson, Charles - Slave Narrative

Biography of a slave : being the experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a preacher of the United Brethren Church, while a slave in the South : together with startling occurrences incidental to slave life.

David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles, together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World . . . (September 1829). (Image 2)

Wheatley, Phillis

An engraving of poet Phillis Wheatley from her book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral