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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
• • September 11
  • Teaching with Lincoln
  • Veterans Day

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

The Source

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Current Issue

December 2012 

Diary

Click the link below for the format you prefer:

• Diary - html version
• Diary- Full printable version w/images pdf

Blog

THE SOURCE BLOG: Teaching with Primary Sources at Eastern Illinois University News. Our new blog allows us to quickly share news about inks to resources, coming events and changes to educational materials important to those of us who recognize the benefits of teaching with digitized primary sources from the collections of the Library of Congress. Posts will be brief and informal, but you have our word that the information shared will be valuable and relevant. Please subscribe to THE SOURCE and encourage colleagues to join the conversation and receive updates via RSS feed or email.

Podcast

Each month TPS EIU Director Cindy Rich joins Tom Grissom of the College of Education and Professional Studies Instructional Technology Center as co-host of his popular podcast, TechTalk4Teachers.  Below is a list of recent episodes which are available in the archives. For a complete list of all episodes click here.

• Episode 141- The tablets are coming, the tablets are coming... 11/30/12
• Episode 140 - New Tech for New Teachers 11/15/12
• Episode 139 -The New Ipad 10/30/12
• Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds 10/15/12
• Episode 137 - Blogging, Books, and RSS Changes 9/28/12
• Episode 136 - We have the technology and we can use it 9/14/12
• Episode 135 - Technology Triage: The Big 3 and Plan B 8/31/12

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Newsletter Archive

2012-2013

• Diaries - December 2012
• Child Labor - November 2012
• Holocaust - October 2012
• The Olympics - September 2012

2011-2012

• Taxes - April 2012
• War of 1812 - March 2012
• The Bill of Rights - February 2012
• The Constitution - January 2012
• The Confederacy - December 2011
• Population - November 2011
• Monuments - October 2011
• Military Medicine - September 2011

2010-2011

• Softball & Baseball - April 2011
• Opry - March 2011
• Postcards - February 2011
• Automobiles - January 2011

• Circus - December 2010
• Gardens - November 2010
• Recipes - October 2010
• Suffrage - September 2010

2009-2010

• Railway Post Office Clerk - May 2010
• Immigration - April 2010
• Aviation - March 2010
• Prohibition and Crime - February 2010 
• Pearl Harbor - January 2010

• Dance - December 2009
• Elections - November 2009
• Newspapers - October 2009
• The Pioneers  - September 2009

2008-2009

• Lincoln at 200 - February 2009
• Protecting The President - January 2009
• The Confederacy - December 2008
• Presidential Speeches - November 2008
• Children During the Civil War - October 2008
• African Americans in the Civil War - September 2008
• Presidential Nominations - June 2008

2007-2008

• Presidents in Art - May 2008
• Civil War Photographs - April 2008
• Presidential Inaugurations - March 2008
• U.S. Currency - February 2008
• Executive Orders - January 2008

• Authors and Poets - November 2007
• Women in World War II - October 2007
• World War II - September 2007

2006-2007

• Summertime - June 2007
• Explorers and Exploration - May 2007
• Farming Life - April 2007
• Natural Disasters - March 2007
• Inventions and Inventors - February 2007
• Our President - January 2007

• Civil Rights - December 2006
• Consumerism - October 2006
• Veterans - November 2006