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History vs. the Movies: Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

History vs. the Movies: Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. A Presentation by Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee. What is Teaching with Primary Sources ?. A program of the Library of Congress

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History vs. the Movies: Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

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  1. History vs. the Movies: Using Primary Sources from the Library of Congress A Presentation by Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee

  2. What is Teaching with Primary Sources? • A program of the Library of Congress • A tool for educators that provides materials and strategies to use in the classroom

  3. What does Teaching with Primary Sources do? • Promotes and facilitates the use of the primary sources available at the Library of Congress Web site

  4. In Tennessee, this program is TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES ACROSS TENNESSEE (TPS-TN) and is administered by the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University.

  5. There are currently 27 TPS programs across 17 states. Unlike most of them, the Tennessee program seeks to cover an entire state. We do this through networks of teachers and educational professionals, which now include YOU! To learn more about the nation-wide TPS program, go to this link: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/

  6. What can TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES offer you? • Educational resources • Webcasts & Newsletters on particular topics • Web site with Primary source sets, Lesson ideas, and Tools for searching and using primary sources

  7. What else? • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES • Workshops, presentations, & institutes • Professional development credits • Stipends for high quality lesson plans that use Library of Congress primary sources to promote student inquiry

  8. Q: How many of your students believe that the way historical events are depicted in movies is accurate?

  9. Example: Iron Jawed Angels • Scene: Picketing the White House

  10. Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917.

  11. [Arrest of White House pickets Catherine Flanagan of Hartford, Connecticut (left), and Madeleine Watson of Chicago (right).] [August 1917]

  12. New York Pickets at the White House, January 26, 1917

  13. Picketing in all sorts of weather. N.Y. Day Picket. Jan. 26, 1917

  14. Other Resources • Collection Connections: Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of National Women’s Party • The Unlikely Rebel

  15. Example: Monty Python Life of Brian • Scene: What have the Romans ever done for us?

  16. [Roman bridge over the Gard, constructed by Agrippa, Nîmes, France]

  17. [Surface and substrata layers of Roman road construction]

  18. Caesarea. (Kaisarieh). Roman aqueduct which once brought water to Caesarea from Nahr-es-Zerka & Springs of Miamas [?]

  19. Example: Pocahontas • Scene: Pocahontas rescues John Smith

  20. LIBRARY OF CONGRESSwww.loc.gov • Tools and materials for educators, researchers, librarians, visitors, and families also available. • Over 15 million (and growing!) digitized primary sources available through the Library’s Web site!

  21. Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee • Lesson ideas & units • Tools for educators • Newsletters • Primary source sets • Links www.mtsu.edu/tps

  22. Contact Information Kira Duke kira.duke@mtsu.edu Stacey Graham stacey.graham@mtsu.edu MTSU Box 80 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (615) 898-2947 Teaching with Primary Sources across Tennessee is a partnership program of the Library of Congress and Middle Tennessee State University, and is administered by MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation.

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