The Lincoln Bicentennial: Planning For and Teaching
About
Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday in 2009
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
June 13, 2001
Introduction
THE LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL: PLANNING FOR AND TEACHING ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S 200TH BIRTHDAY IN 2009 is designed for K-12 teachers in Indiana schools. It has three objectives: a review of recent scholarship about Lincoln, including his years in Southern Indiana; a discussion of what is going on at the national and state levels to prepare for Lincoln’s 200th birthday celebration; and an introduction to “Teaching with Historic Places.” The latter is a program developed by the National Park Service that encourages the use of historic sites as teaching tools. In this case, the focus will be on how to use Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in the classroom.
Historic Southern Indiana sponsors this event, in cooperation with Lincoln
Boyhood National Memorial and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. Grant
support from the Indiana Humanities Council helped to make this event possible.
Historic Southern Indiana is an outreach program of the University of Southern
Indiana. Established in 1986, it seeks to identify, protect and preserve,
enhance, and promote the historical, cultural, and natural resources of the 26
counties that constitute the historically distinctive southern third of Indiana.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial was Indiana’s first National Park Service
facility (1962). Shortly after the death of Lincoln in 1865, residents and
friends sought to memorialize the burial site of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. The state
of Indiana administered the property from 1925 to 1962. Its chief legacy is the
impressive Visitor’s Center, completed in 1942. The other major feature of the
park is its Living Historical Farm.
Agenda
Lincoln: What We Know, What We Try to Know, and Why
Phillip Paludan
Lincoln in Southern Indiana
William Bartelt
Tour includes: Visitor Center, Nancy Hanks Lincoln Gravesite, Cabin Site, Living Historic Farm, Lincoln Boyhood Trail, and Trail of 12 Stones
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