| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology through American History <http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/index.html>. Created and maintained by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) and the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Reviewed Sept. 14–30, 2001.

This ambitious Web site seeks to provide interdisciplinary curriculum materials about the history of technology for middle and high school classrooms. Whole Cloth, as the name suggests, uses the history of American textile manufacture to weave together technological, social, and cultural change. The project hopes to increase students' understanding of technological innovation and, especially, to support learning experiences that attract women and all students of color to study science, math, and engineering. 1

The Whole Cloth Web site continues a curriculum development project of the same title begun in 1987 by SHOT, the Lemelson Center, and the Center for Children and Technology, with the support of a National Science Foundation grant. Working over two summers, a committed group of college instructors, museum professionals, and middle and high school teachers created eight modular units. The Whole Cloth Web site contains three of these units: "Early Industrialization," "True Colors," and "Synthetic Fibers." . . .

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