Atlanta History Center’s Travel Trunks are available for weekly or monthly rental and are designed to assist teachers in highlighting various chapters in our nation’s history.  Each travel trunk includes a teacher’s guide and a selection of hands-on materials. 

Monthly rental is $75 per trunk.  To reserve a traveling history trunk for your classroom, please call 404.814.4058 or email.   

Native Lands

Includes videos introducing Native American life in the South, a kit of reproduction projectile points, a working "pump drill," music, maps, pottery, and basketry.

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Colonial Life
Put on a vest or apron and imagine life as a Colonial-era child. Kit includes music, a collection of domestic items, quill pens, and examples of Colonial flags and documents.

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Georgia Pioneers
Explore the lives of Georgia's settlers by using a reproduction butter churn and wash basin, reproduction schoolbooks, a slate, and wooden toys.

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Civil War
March back in time with a collection of soldier and civilian clothing, equipment, and first-person documentation. Hardtack and haversacks are included to help bring the Civil War era to life.

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World War I and the 1920s
Recruitment posters, newspaper headlines, postcards, and a soldiers diary illustrate life in the trenches “over there.” After the war, look at changes on the homefront as women gain the right to vote and the Jazz Age begins. 

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World War II
Military and civilian experiences are presented in newspapers, magazines, and photographs, trunk posters, contemporary maps, music, and videos.  Make a timeline from headlines, hear a radio broadcast of D-Day, and try on a piece of soldier’s gear. 

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Civil Rights
Newspapers, magazines, and oral histories illuminate the struggle for civil rights in the modern South. Trunk includes materials for presentations, and suggestions for honoring the era's unsung heroes.

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Black Phoenix
Take a journey through Atlanta's African American history from 1904-1974. Photography and artifacts tell the story of the city's transformation from the Jim Crow era to the election of Mayor Jackson.