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Southwest Center History Trunks 

You may check out these trunks for your classroom or contact Marti Pittman  (Marti@southwestcenter.org or Charlene Casady (charlene@southwestcenter.org) and they will teach a lesson for you, free of charge.
For information on contents and pictures of each trunk, click on the titles below.

1. The Gilded Age high school Marlene Moran
2. Childrens Literature During the Truman Era RubyBridges, Sadako and Harry Truman biography -  elementary level Anita Troth
3.  Many Hats of Harry Truman elementary Kathy Marney
4. Civil Rights elementary, junior high and secondary
5.  Lewis and Clark--Missouri River elementary and junior high Karen Grimmett and Marsha Dobson
6.  Exploring America: The Lewis and Clark Expedition junior high Elissa White
7.Early Settlement and  Missouri History elementary and junior high Nicole Boone
8.  Socialism   high school Charles Wheeler
9.  Childrens Games  Through History elementary
10.  Patriotic Symbols of America elementary Sharon Bramwell
11. Recipe for Citizenship elementary 
12.  Daniel Boone: Searching Through history for the Man Behind the Myth junior high Marti Pittman
13.  Indians in the Ozarks  elementary Anita Troth
14. Missouris Quest for Statehood/State Symbols elementary Elissa White
15.  Explore the Civil War Using Primary Sources elementary Kim Gilmore
16. Show Me Missouri and Pioneer Life- elementary Jerri Bollig
17.  Tomatoes- Old World, New World: How the World Ate Before Pizza high school Lonna Tucker
18.  Guerilla Warfare in Southwest Missouri During the Civil War junior high Marti Pittman
19.  The Civil War You Dont learn About in Textbooks mini trunk high school Trisha Hobbs
20.  Missourians: Communicating Their Beliefs Across the Continent and Around the World elementary and secondary Karen Grimmett and Marsha Dobson
21.  Southwest Missouri  and the Surrounding Areas- Places of Prominence in the Civil Wa� �elementary, junior high and high school Rhonda Wyrsch
22. The Civil War in Cedar and Vernon Countieselementary Anita Troth
23.  War Torn Missourielementary and junior high Cindy Gray
24.  We were In This War, Too: World War II  - junior high Marti Pittman
25.  We Remember: World War II elementary, junior high and high school � Rhonda Wyrsch
26.  Life in Colonial America - elementary--Sharon Bramwell and Linda Boyd
27.Heroes of the Underground Railroad  elementary  Sharon Bramwell
28. A Day in the Life of a Colonial Child elemenntary  Michelle Chancey
29.Child Labor, then and now  elementary, jr. high, Lonna Tucker
30.Revolutionary Times   elementary  Debbie Neill
31.  Underground Railroad elementary, middle school, Karen Grimmett
32.  Private Yankee Doodle    Elementary, jr. high   Marti Pittman
33.  Civil War   elementary and junior high
34.  Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of Rum, Pirates   elementary, jr. high   Crista Bobski
35.  Colonial America   elementary, jr. high
36. Inventions: Coming to the iEra   elementary
37. Immigration   junior high school
38. 1893 Chicago World Fair high school
39.  Freedom Rocks: Founding Fathers   elementary
40.  The Bill of Rights Rocks My World  elementary and junior high
41.  Freedom Rocks:  Freedom of Speech   high school
42.  Japan  elementary, middle school   Marti Pittman

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