One Day Teacher Institutes on Abraham Lincoln

A cooperative endeavor between the Interpretive Programs Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, this institute invites educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library’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.

When:

Choose from
Friday, February 27, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Saturday, February 28, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Monday, March 2, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Friday, March 27, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Saturday, March 28, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Monday, March 30, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL

Where:

The Learning Center, First Floor, James Madison Building of the Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC
Directions

Audience:

Educators from around the country

Purpose:

Provide educators with an opportunity to engage in discovery learning and to develop strategies to teach about Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the age in which he lived with Library of Congress primary sources.

The Library of Congress, home to the Abraham Lincoln papers, celebrates the bicentennial of the president’s birth with an exhibition titled With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition—an exhibition on view at the Library from February 12 – May 8, 2009. The exhibition will chart Lincoln’s growth from prairie lawyer to preeminent statesman and address the monumental issues he faced, including slavery and race, the dissolution of the Union, and the Civil War.

Participants will learn to incorporate images, manuscripts, letters, photographs, maps, and poetry, and will engage in activities that will help make this era in our country’s history “come alive” for students through hand-on activities.

Registration is limited to the first 20 applicants for any date. Use form below.

For more information contact Susan Mordan at (202) 707–9203.

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Please select appropriate date:
Monday, March 2, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL
Monday, March 30, 2009; 9 am – 4 pm FULL

Please let us know if you have questions or comments regarding your registration.

For more information, or to register by phone, call 202-707-9203.