Cowles Library at Drake University is offering the course, “Making Presidential History Come Alive,” this fall that relates to two traveling exhibits that they will be hosting later this semester and in early 2010. The course is available for licensure renewal credit through Heartland AEA 11 or as a graduate credit at Drake University. There is limited space so an RSVP is required by October 16, 2009.
"Making Presidential History Come Alive" course dates and objectives are the following:
• October 31, 2009 (9:00 a.m,-Noon; 1:00-2:00 p.m.) – learn about primary and secondary resources, review initial research skills, experience a detailed tour of “John Adams: Unbound” traveling exhibit in the Library.
• November 5, 2009 (7:00-9:00 p.m.) – attend the Live! at Cowles Library Lecture series featuring historical scholar/author, Gordon Wood, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.
• November 14, 2009 (9:00 a.m.-Noon) – incorporate information literacy into the classroom and review library research skills
• November 17, 2009 (7:00-9:00 p.m.) – attend the special Citizens Arise! Lecture, featuring Beth Prindle, exhibition curator of the “John Adams: Unbound” exhibit, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.
• January 21, 2010 (7:00-9:00 p.m.) – attend the Live! at Cowles Library Lecture series featuring Ronald Rietveld, Lincoln scholar, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.
• January 23, 2010 (8:00 a.m.-Noon) – learn about available grant resources, experience a detailed tour of the “Abraham Lincoln: A Man for His Time, A Man for All Times” traveling exhibit in the Library.
• February 4, 2010 (7:00-9:00 p.m.) – attend the special Citizens Arise! Lecture featuring Civil War scholar, Orville Vernon Burton, in the Cowles Library Reading Room.
The traveling exhibits will be open and free to the public:
October 28 to December 11, 2009 - "John Adams: Unbound"
January 11 to February 8, 2010 - "Abraham Lincoln: A Man of his Time, A Man for All Times"
If you are interested in registering for this course, please contact Claudia Frazer at (515) 271-3776 or Claudia.frazer@drake.edu or Susan Breakenridge at (515) 271-3994 or susan.breakenridge@drake.edu.
For more information, see the Citizens Arise! Web site at http://citizensarise.drake.edu/.
