Living history project
By: Laura Wakefield and Joy Penney.
Contributors: Penney, Joy.; Library of Congress.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: History -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Oral history -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Emigration and immigration -- History -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Heroes -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Other titles: Teacher lesson plan.
Description: Students learn how to analyze life histories from "American Life Histories, 1936-1940" in American Memory, and then conduct interviews with people in their communities and collect their life histories. The Living History Project has involved students in oral history for two school years, each with a different theme (transplants, heroes).
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on July 17, 2003; last updated Sept. 4, 2002).
Part of the American Memory Learning Page online resource offered by the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Transplants, stories of individuals who migrated to central florida; title: Heroes: a museum celebrating heroic traits in the lives of ordinary people.