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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including the following:


Eighteenth-Century Clothing at WilliamsburgEIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CLOTHING AT WILLIAMSBURG
By Linda Baumgarten

Antique clothing worn by men, women, and children in the eighteenth century offers a revealing glimpse into the lives of colonial Virginians. Accessories such as aprons, gloves, hats, handkerchiefs, fans, shoes, stockings, and undergarments are also illustrated. 80 pages. Softbound. $19.95. Available through www.williamsburgmarketplace.com.



Lady's Pocket Hands-On History KitLADY'S POCKET
Hands-On History Kit

Women tied on their pockets and reached through slits in their petticoats to retrieve the personal items they kept there. This lady’s pocket contains a fan, a wig curler, sewing implements (needle case and wax animal), coins (pieces of eight), a seal and wax, Aesop’s Fables cards, and a receipt. Each kit contains: artifacts, a discovery work sheet, an annotated artifact inventory, glossary, graphic organizers, primary sources, and illustrations. Grades 3–8. $99.00. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or email eftsupport@cwf.org.



What Clothes Reveal:The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal AmericaWHAT CLOTHES REVEAL: THE LANGUAGE OF CLOTHING IN COLONIAL AND FEDERAL AMERICA
By Linda Baumgarten

Drawing on the costumes and accessories in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, Linda Baumgarten examines how Americans of all classes dressed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics range from the work clothes of slaves to the elegant, high-style attire of the gentry. What people wore during significant life passages and the social contexts of such apparel are fully and engagingly discussed. The time line illustrates trends in fashion over three centuries. 278 pages. Hardbound. $65.00. Available through www.williamsburgmarketplace.com.


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