Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter
Welcome to the "Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter." The newsletter is a joint project between Teaching with Primary Sources Programs at Eastern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
The newsletter is changing as we prepare to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln. Those of us who teach in the Land of Lincoln share a sense of pride in the integrity and accomplishments of President Lincoln. Teaching with Primary Sources allows us to share with educators and life long learners the valuable resources from the Library of Congress that may be incorporated into curriculum when teaching about Mr. Lincoln. With this issue and continuing through February 2009 the theme each month will reflect primary sources from our Abraham Lincoln Calendar, you can download and print a copy of the calendar.
- Introduction
- Beyond President Lincoln - information relative to the topic during other time periods of American history
- Topic Connections - American Memory Collections, Special Presentations, Features and Activities and Lesson Plans that relate to our theme
- Lesson Plans and Activities - links to wonderful resources that will help educators incorporate Library of Congress into curriculum
- Test You Knowledge - an activity to test your knowledge of vocabulary relative to the topic
- What's New at LOC.GOV
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Newsletters
- Presidential Nominations - June 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- Presidents in Art - May 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- Civil War Photographs - April 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- Presidential Inaugurations - March 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- U.S. Currency - February 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- Executive Orders - January 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
- Authors and Poets - November 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Women in World War II - October 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- World War II - September 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Summertime - June 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Explorers and Exploration - May 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Farming Life - April 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Natural Disasters - March 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Inventions and Inventors - February 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Our President - January 2007 (PDF) (HTML)
- Civil Rights - December 2006 (PDF) (HTML)
- Consumerism - October 2006 (PDF) (HTML)
- Veterans - November 2006 (PDF) (HTML)
