Michigan History Teaching Resources

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By Michigan History magazine—33 pages, 480 KB; a full-color booklet that covers from prehistoric to modern Michigan in 12 segments.  Includes some teaching ideas.

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature—33 pages, 804 KB; a coloring book with plenty of information, dates, and pictures.

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature—49 pages, 868 KB; a black and white booklet detailing a myriad of Michigan’s historical facts.  Includes numerous pictures.

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature—25 pages, 444 KB; a historic "tour" of the state capital building.  Includes several historic and modern pictures and drawings.

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature, Legislative Service Bureau, Science and Technology Division—41 pages, 316 KB;

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature—19 pages, 120 KB; a whimsical coloring book that serves as a good resource for teaching recycling.

Prepared by the Michigan Legislature—84 pages, 804 KB; a thorough reference to elected officials and judges, and a how-to for citizen participation in matters of state government.

By Michigan History magazine—2 pages, 380 KB; a full-color brochure that vibrantly describes Michigan’s state symbols.

This link takes you to the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library. (The Text Center is set up in such a way we cannot give you a direct link to the work itself, only to the listing page.)
The listings are alphabetical. Scroll down to "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882" (there is a Wadsworth listing before this one without the date). Scroll down and click on the link: "Hiawatha; a poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by John Rea Neill. 1856.” Here you may print out all (115 KB) or portions of the text.

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