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Newsletter

The TPS Project at Quincy University will publish a bi-monthly newsletter to help promote the use of primary sources in the classroom.

Featured Collection

Each month, a specific collection from the Library of Congress American Memory Collections will be highlighted and ideas of how to implement the items within the collection in the classroom will be provided.

Featured Primary Source Collection Set

Each month, a sampling of primary source items will be organized around a specific topic.

2012:

January/February-- Black History Month: The People of the Harlem Renaissance

 

2011:

January -- Forms of Dance

February -- Black History Month: The Men and Women Who Began the Fight for Rights

March -- Basketball

April -- The Civil War

Summer-- Rivers of and Around Illinois

October -- The Great Depression

November/December-- Music Through the Ages

 

2010:

January -- Football

February-- Thomas Jefferson

March --American Red Cross

April --A Look at Mother Earth

May-- A Look at the Railroad

June-- D-Day

July-- Explorers: Lewis & Clark

August-- Explorers: Part 2

September-- Revolutionary War

October-- Inventors

November -- Native Americans

December -- Celebrating Three President's Birthdays

 

2009:

January-- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

February-- Abraham Lincoln

March-- The History of Women

April-- Jazz

May-- Racing

Extra-- Mark Twain

June-- Farming

July--George Washington

August-- Schools

September-- Hispanic Americans

October-- Italian and Polish Americans

November-- Veterans

December-- Pearl Harbor

 

2008:

April -- Poetry

May -- Asian Pacific American

June -- Summer

July -- Patriotic

August -- The Summer Olympics

September-- The U.S. Constitution

October-- The 1858 Illinois State Election

November-- Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

December-- Christmas

 
 
 
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