Themed Resources
- Library of Congress Online Resources for Educators (pdf)
- 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 - Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources
- Illinois: Taught with Primary Sources
- Presidential Campaigns: Packaging the Presidents
- Underground Railroad:
A Path to Freedom - Verse and Chorus
- WWII
- Top Topics
Special Projects
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tools
- Classroom Activities
- Constant Motion:
The Job of Railway Post Office Clerks - Constitution Day
- Library of Congress Site Update "Cheat Sheet" (pdf)
- Lincoln Assassination CSI Activity
- Patriotic Songs
Professional Development
- Update-Summer Institute
- TPS EIU Jump-Start
- TPS in Action
(onsite workshop series) - Customized Teaching with Primary Sources Institutes
Additional LInks
- EIUTPS Google Search Tool
- National TPS Site
- Library of Congress
- loc.gov Teacher PageAbraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
EIU Teaching with Primary Sources
Other Resources
More resources to learn and teach about railway post office clerks and the railway mail service.
Smithsonian Institute National Postal Museum
Railway Mail Service Site - History of the Service, Day in the Life, Danger on the Rail, Oral Histories
United States Postal Service Postal History Photo Gallery: Railroads and Moving the Mail- Mail by Rail
Catskill Archive - Sorting Mail in a Railway Post Office Car
The National Archives - A Typical Day as Train No. 8 Speeds Eastward
The National Archives - Prologue Magazine, The "Fast Mail": A History of the U.S. Railway Mail Service
Galesburg Railroad Museum - The Railway Post Office (RPO)
The Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs Using the search tools, look for "railway mail car".
The Library of Congress - American Memory, Railroad Maps 1828- 1900 Using the search tools, look for "Galbraith". Frank Galbraith created study maps for railway post office clerks.
California State Railroad Museum - Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad
