PRIMARY SOURCES: “What’s real and how do we know it?”

Attend a FREE workshop at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and find out what Primary Sources really are! ALPLM staff and historians will present examples and methods of identifying Primary Sources and how to use them in today’s classroom. Attending teachers will receive 6 CPDUs.

Workshop participants will examine and discuss:

• Documents from the ALPLM Collections
• An 1830’s New Salem newspaper

• Presidential Library Manuscript holdings

• Newspapers and Microfilm
• Political Cartoons

Attendees will also learn about the benefits and potential pitfalls of using oral history.

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Where: ALPLM Library Classroom

To Register: Contact: Carol Manning – 217-558-8929 – carol.manning@illinois.gov