I want to highlight the comments shared by our group member 
Janice Warju
, who is a colleague at The Henry Ford Museum. DM her if you have questions about these amazing resources and how to incorporate them into your classroom.
Remember, Chronicling America has wonderful newspaper articles and ads to complement the Museum resources!
It's also worth a visit, if you want to go somewhere totally unexpected. The Henry Ford and the Edsel and Eleanor Ford Museums are like Disney for 20th century history nerds! Lots of gems in Michigan!
From Janice:
Happy to share this link to the new educator platform The Henry Ford has established to share educator resource guides, artifact spotlights, and professional development opportunities. We are continuing to build out the platform, but memberships are free for most of our opportunities.
https://inhub.thehenryford.org/
For those unfamiliar, we often hear that the assumption is we are a car museum. Well, we do have about 300 cars in our collection, and around 100 on display, but we also have 18 airplanes and half a dozen trains on display. We also have the only remaining Dymaxion House designed by Buckminster Fuller and the bus Rosa Parks was riding when she was arrested in December, 1955.
Membership has a free option and includes most of our opportunities for educators.
We often hear that many people think THF is just an automobile museum, and we do have about 300, with around 100 on display, but we also have 18 airplanes, half a dozen locomotives, and so much more. We have the only remaining Dymaxion House, designed by Buckminster Fuller, and the bus Rosa Parks was riding in December, 1955. And then, there is Greenfield Village and the Ford Rouge Factory Tour, so please reach out with any questions.
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