Eastern Illinois University Homepage

Teaching Kits

• Library of Congress Online Resources for Educators 
• Abraham Lincoln
• Art of War:
  WWI and WWII Posters
• Cartoon Analysis
• Childhood Lost:Child Labor During Industrial Revolution
• Coles County: Taught with Primary Sources
• Corp of Discovery:
  Revealing the American West
• Illinois: Taught with Primary Sources
• Presidential Campaigns: Packaging the Presidents
• Underground Railroad:
  A Path to Freedom
• Verse and Chorus
• WWII

Special Projects

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tools
• Customized Teaching with Primary Sources Institutes
• Constitution Day
• Learning with Lincoln
• Lincoln Assasination CSI Activity
• Veterans Day
• NEW Patriotic Songs

Additional Links

• EIUTPS Google Search Tool
• National TPS Site
• Library of Congressloc.gov Teacher Page
  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Contact Us

Teaching with
Primary Sources
1415 Buzzard Hall
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, IL 61920

(217) 581-8378

Director:

Cindy Rich, Ph.D.

What is Teaching with Primary Sources?

The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and foundations to help teachers use the Library’s vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.

Teaching with Primary Sources builds on the success of the Library's previous outreach initiatives, particularly the American Memory Fellows and An Adventure of the American Mind programs. Eastern Illinois University Teaching with Primary Sources has been actively collaborating with local educators since the program inception in January 2004 and is proud to support the goals and mission of the national TPS program.  TPS was brought to the EIU campus thanks to the efforts of Senator Dick Durbin.

Spotlight Resource

The Golden Door: Immigration

The April 2010 Issue of Central Illinois Teaching with Primary Sources Newsletter is now available.  

News Announcements and Opportunities:

1. Summer Institute 2010 - Building on the success of our Learning with Lincoln Institute, we are excitedly planning a wonderful professional development opportunity for this summer with a few changes.  The institute will feature a new theme - watch here for details!

2.   Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Mentor Advisory Group The Library is seeking K-12 teacher leaders to help with its planned national teacher network. The Library of Congress Teacher Network will provide teachers nationwide with online and local opportunities to learn collaboratively about teaching with primary sources. More information can be found at the link above.  The deadline to apply is April 28, 2010.

We welcome your comments and ideas about our site. Please email us if you would like to see something new added or have an idea for a theme.