Lincoln's Assassination: All Things Considered

Description

The Surratt Society presents this conference addressing the many issues surrounding the Lincoln assassination. This year's theme focuses on events and topics related to the tragedy of April 14, 1865. Several of these subjects touch on the "cast of characters" affected by the event. Another topic focuses on the infamous "American Bastille," with a concluding look at how the Lincoln assassination has been remembered in popular culture.

Sponsoring Organization
Surratt House Museum
Location
Clinton, MD
Start Date
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One-day Teacher Institute on Abraham Lincoln

Description

This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library of Congress's primary and web-based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" as its foundation.

Contact name
Mordan, Susan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
202-707-9203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven hours

One-day Teacher Institute on Abraham Lincoln

Description

This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library of Congress's primary and web-based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" as its foundation.

Contact name
Mordan, Susan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
202-707-9203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven hours

One-day Teacher Institute on Abraham Lincoln

Description

This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library of Congress's primary and web-based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" as its foundation.

Contact name
Mordan, Susan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
202-707-9203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Contact Title
202-707-9203
Duration
Seven hours

One-day Teacher Institute on Abraham Lincoln

Description

This institute invites educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library of Congress's primary and web-based materials. Participants will leave with strategies and materials they can use in their schools. The institute uses the Library's exhibition "With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" as its foundation.

Contact name
Mordan, Susan
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
202-707-9203
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Seven hours

School House to White House: The Education of Presidents

Description

Like other citizens, U.S. Presidents attended elementary and secondary schools and then college. They went to classes; did their homework; joined clubs; participated in band, debate, and sports; worked on newspaper staffs; and ran for class office. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum will host the National Archives traveling exhibit, "School House to White House: The Education of Presidents." Visitors journey back to the schooldays of the 20th-century presidents through photographs, archival materials, and museum objects revealing fascinating detail about the children who would one day grow up to be President of the United States. In conjunction with this exhibit, a teacher workshop will be held. Educators from four Presidential Libraries (Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, and Clinton) will share information and teaching activities for use in the classroom.

Contact name
Heuertz, Tom
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Phone number
816-268-8241
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$25
Duration
Six hours

Lincoln and the South

Description

Probably no president has ever been as vilified as Abraham Lincoln was in the South during the Civil War. At this conference, outstanding scholars on the subject will convene to discuss this bitter relationship.

Sponsoring Organization
American Civil War Center
Contact email
Location
Richmond, VA
Phone number
804-780-1865
Start Date
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Abraham Lincoln: A Man for His Time and a Man for All Times

Description

This workshop will be structured to enhance teacher knowledge of Abraham Lincoln's significance in American history and will include pedagogical skills. It will include morning lectures by Thomas Krannawitter, of Hillsdale College and author of Vindicating Lincoln, and afternoon sessions, by John Rodahl of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, devoted to strategies for lesson planning, classroom activities, and student engagement.

Sponsoring Organization
Challenge of Freedom Project
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Two days
End Date

Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln Symposium

Description

This all-day Lincoln symposium celebrates the 148th anniversary of Lincoln's first inauguration and features six award-winning scholars: William Lee Miller, on presidential morality during the Lincoln administration; James M. McPherson, on Lincoln as commander-in-chief; Douglas L. Wilson, on Lincoln and the power of words; Lucas Morel, on Lincoln and race; Harold Holzer, on Lincoln as President-elect; and Elizabeth D. Leonard, on Lincoln and justice.

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Library of Congress
Phone number
202-707-9203
Start Date
Duration
One day

House Fellows Program

Description

The House Fellows Program brings together secondary education teachers of American history and government for a week-long intensive institute on the history and practice of the House of Representatives. Each component of the House Fellows Program is designed to help educators improve their knowledge and understanding of the "People's House."

Sponsoring Organization
Office of the Historian: U.S. House of Representatives
Eligibility Requirements

Secondary teachers teaching in the districts represented by the Representatives listed on the website are eligible to apply.

Application Deadline
Location
Washington, DC