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Veterans
Spotlight on Central Illinois
Primary sources such as photographs and veteran stories can bring life to the events and people who were engaged in past wars. Students can explore concepts of values, culture, and discrimination. They can also develop an understanding of the role veterans play in our nation’s history and how veterans have contributed to our country today.
Connecting locally...learn about past central Illinois veterans by analyzing photographs offered through the Library of Congress web site.
"Portrait of Sgt. James W. Travis, 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A." Created between 1860 and 1865. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 Collection. American Memory, Library of Congress. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwar:@field(NUMBER+@band(cwp+4a40904))]
"State of Illinois [Pictorial envelope]." 1821-1880. Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society Collection. American Memory, Library of Congress. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(aj51001))]
"Soldiers in mess tents, arsenal in background, during Springfield, Ill. Riots, Springfield, Ill." No Date. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ggbain+02049))+@field(COLLID+ggbain))]
Veterans History Project
Listen to powerful oral and written histories from our past veterans! http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
Hugh A. Bevirt
War: World War II, 1944-1949
Branch: Navy
Unit: USS Wyandot (AKA 92)
Highest Rank: Storekeeper First Class
Place of Birth: Belleville, IL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.00492/
George W. Siebert
War: World War II, 1944-1945
Branch: Army
Unit: 3rd Platoon Infantry, Company E, 84th Division, 334th Infantry
Service Location: England, France, Belgium, Germany
Highest Rank: Private First Class
POW: Yes
Birth Year: 1920
Place of Birth: Pleasant Mound, IL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01791/
John Walter Trump
War: Korean War, 1947-1952
Branch: Navy
Unit: USS Canisteo
Service Location: Atlantic
Highest Rank: Storekeeper First Class
Birth Year: 1928
Place of Birth: Decatur, IL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.10101/
Topic Connections
America from the Great Depression to World War II, Black and White Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1935-1945.
The photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. In total, the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white film negatives and transparencies, 1,610 color transparencies, and around 107,000 black-and-white photographic prints, most of which were made from the negatives and transparencies. The collection was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1944.
Special Presentations
- Documenting America: Photographers on Assignment
- Selected FSA Images: Popular Requests
- Staff Selections
- Portrait Sampler of FSA Photographers
Civil War Maps
This presentation contains approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks within the Geography and Map Division, 200 maps from the Library of Virginia, and 400 from the Virginia Historical Society. The maps, charts, and atlases depict battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications.
State maps are included, with maps of specific battles, cities and towns and natural features listed alphabetically under each state.
Special Presentations
Civil War Treasures from The New York Historical Society
Materials in this online collection are drawn from twelve archival collections that are housed at The New York Historical Society. Pictorial items include 731 stereographs, and over 70 photographs from an album, 178 sketches from 3 different collections, 304 posters, 29 etchings of caricatures, and almost 500 envelopes. Items from manuscript collections include letters, photographs, and papers regarding a competition sponsored by William Oland Bourne for left-handed penmanship, the first and only issue of The Prison Times handwritten by Confederate prisoners in Fort Delaware, 32 letters written by Sarah Blunt, a nurse in hospitals at Point Lookout, Maryland and Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, and 3 letters by Walt Whitman.
Special Presentations
Selected Civil War Photographs
The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.
Special Presentations
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. These films were made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and consist of actualities filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events.
Special Presentations
The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers’ Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
The Stars and Stripes was published in France by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of the United States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919. General John J. Pershing wanted a newspaper written by servicemen for the soldiers on the battlefront. The newspaper's mission was to strengthen the morale of the troops and to promote unity within the American forces. The venture was immediately popular with the soldiers, quickly selling out its first issue of one thousand copies. Appearing during a pivotal period in world and American history, The Stars and Stripes is a unique type of newspaper: a military newspaper published by the United States government, documenting the experience of American soldiers during wartime.
Special Presentations
World War II Military Situation Maps
The Twelfth Army Group Situation Map collection provides interesting insights into U.S. Army operations in northwestern Europe during World War Two. The situation maps specifically provide excellent primary source information that reflects the incomplete and inaccurate information available to the operational commander, General Omar N. Bradley, and his planning staff during the campaign.
Special Presentations
Music for the Nation American Sheet Music
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, all of it published in the United States.
Special Presentations
- Music Copyrighted in Federal District Courts ca. 1820-1860
- Greatest Hits 1820-1860
- Music Published in America 1870-1885
- In Performance: Choral Works from the Collection
- Greatest Hits, 1870-1885: Variety Music Cavalcade
American Leaders Speak Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
The Nation's Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker. The recordings fall into two distinct series. The 1918 series was devoted mostly to World War I topics and was apparently distributed only to political organizations and other groups. All of the recordings from the 1918 series were pressed on ten-inch discs. The 1919-1920 series was devoted mostly to postwar issues and the 1920 presidential election. The total number of recordings made by the Nation's Forum is unknown. The Library of Congress holds fifty-nine examples in a collection that has been assembled over a period of years from a variety of donors and record collectors.
Special Presentations
Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson Plans
- Ladies Contraband and Spies (Grade 10-11)
- Mathew Brady Bunch (Grade 6-12)
- Nothing to Fear (Grade 5-8)
- Photojournalism (Grade 5-8)
- The Civil War Through A Child’s Eye (Grade 6-8)
- What are we Fighting for Over There? (Grade 10-12)
- What Do You See (Grade 5-12)
- George Washington (Grade 8-12)
Special Presentations & Activities
Today in History
Meet Amazing Americans (Elementary)
Roger Fenton Crimean War Photos
What's New at LOC.GOV
The Yanks are Coming!
This great exhibit showcases America's love for music during war time. Americans copyrighted more than 35,000 World War I patriotic songs, military marches, love ballads, and protest songs. The lyrics ranged from rallying cries and praises of bravery to pleas for pacifism and celebrations of peace. New tunes were in constant demand by a public who bought sheet music, piano rolls, and the newly-popular phonograph records.
The Most Famous Poster
Believed to be one of the most famous posters in the world, and Uncle Sam being one of the most popular personifications of the United States, this exhibit will take you deeper into making of the Uncle Sam's "I Want You for the U.S. Army" poster. Over four million copies were printed between 1917 and 1918, as the United States entered World War I and began sending troops and material into war zones. The poster was so popular that the image was later used in World War II and is still used today.
Churchill and the Great Republic
This exhibition examines the life and career of Winston Churchill and emphasizes his lifelong links with the United States the nation he called "the Great Republic." This exhibit draws on the unparalleled collection of Churchill materials in the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, England. This is the first time that these materials are exhibited comprehensively in the United States. The exhibition also showcases the remarkable holdings on Churchill and his life in the Library of Congress.
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