at Salesian High School
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

This page contains links to photos and text from projects and field trips
completed by Salesian High students as part of their studies
in the American History Academy Program.

Freshman Final Exam Projects
Web pages about local Revolutionary War Battles in New York, the Bronx and Westchester
June 2008
To see the assignment, click here.
 

The Battle of New York by Joseph Iuso Click here	The Prison Ships of Wallabout Bay by James Rice Click here	The Battle of Pelham by Paul Saburro Click here	The Battle of New York by Ethan O'Sullivan Click here
The Battle of Fort Washington by Nick Thanasias Click here	The Battle of Pelham by David Rivera Click here	The Prison Ships of Wallabout Bay by Ryan Fucci Click here	The Battle of White Plains by Nick Lorenz Click here

Sophomore Field Trip to Mystic Seaport

Click on the Mystic Seaport banner to go to your pre-trip assignment.
This American History Academy field trip is sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
 
Mystic Seaport Trip Follow-Up Project
Click here
   
Junior Civil War Research Project
Research the Lincoln Institute website
Political Cartoons from the Library of Congress
American Political Prints from the Library of Congress
American Cartoon Prints from the Library of Congress
Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress
Civil War Photographs (Brady-Handy Collection) from the Library of Congress
For more Civil War Political Cartoons, click here and
click here for Civil War cartoons from the 19th century magazine Punch.

Click the banner above for HarpWeek.  From 1857 to 1912, Harper's Weekly magazine provided
a continueous record of what happened in America on a weekly basis.  You can now search through
the text of all of the years of this magazine as well as its excellent collection of political cartoons.
 
Sophomore American Art Project
Click here to download a copy of your English and Art assignment.
Click here for links to web research on 19th Century American artists and architecture.
Click here for help with writing your project.
Click here to see the term paper MODEL PAGE.
Click here for MLA Website Citation Examples.
Click here for MLA Database Citation Examples.
*** Outstanding American Art & Architecture Projects - May 2006 ***
 
  Sophomore American Art Document Projects

Thomas Cole	George Catlin
Frederick Church	Winslow Homer
Thomas Moran

The Gilder Lehrman Institute's quarterly American history online journal HISTORY NOW features articles
by noted historians as well as lesson plans, links to related websites, bibliographies, and many other resources.
In each issue, the editors bring together historians, master teachers, and archivists to comment
on a single historical theme.