New York: Teaching with Historic Places

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.

Here you’ll find place-based educational resources relating to historic places in New York. Discover more resources at the Teaching with Historic Places homepage.

Featured Educational Resources

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  African Burial Ground National Monument

  Dig through centuries of Manhattan concrete to uncover a cemetery linked to the African Diaspora, spirituality and how we honor our origins.

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  The Battle of Oriskany

  Learn how New York's Mohawk Valley became the setting for a fierce Revolutionary War battle that pitted residents of the area.

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  The M'Clintock House

  Explores the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, where women made demands for equality.