Smithsonian's History Explorer Smithsonian's History Explorer

Welcome to the Smithsonian's History Explorer

Your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History as part of Verizon's thinkfinity.org consortium. Explore the rich resources of the Museum and bring history to life with artifacts, primary sources, and online tools for the classroom, afterschool programs, and home.


Results will include multi-disciplinary resources from all Thinkfinity partners.

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Featured Artifact

YORICK, The Bionic Skeleton

Halloween Fun

Yorick is a plastic male skeleton imbedded with electronic and mechanical devices used to replace worn body parts.Yorik was created by Ed Mueller, an engineer in the Division of Mechanical and Material Sciences at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in Washington, D.C...

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