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Year 2001 Application: Introduction

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Overview | Introduction | Selection Criteria | Inquiries & Submissions | Guidelines & Forms

The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program is sponsoring the fifth American Memory Fellows Institute to help educators and library media specialists make powerful educational use of the American Memory collections. The American Memory collections are digitized primary source documents in American history and culture now available on the World Wide Web at http://www.loc.gov.

Some of the collections now on-line include:

• Broadsides from the Revolutionary Era
• Mathew Brady's Civil War Photographs
• African American Pamphlets for almost 100 years
• Early films of Thomas Edison
• Turn-of-the-century photographs of urban America
• Oral histories from the Depression Era
• Panoramic maps
• Sound recordings of folk songs

These rich primary resources offer great potential for strengthening humanities instruction, by helping students actively engage in the study of history, develop critical thinking skills, and connect history to their own lives.

The American Memory Fellows Program gathers teams of humanities teachers and library/media specialists from across the country to learn about these unique resources and to create exemplary lesson plans that can be shared with other educators. Fellows enjoy a lively professional development experience with outstanding colleagues while helping to shape the way the Library's unique primary source collections are used in schools across the country.

American Memory Fellows Will

• Spend a week in Washington, DC, learning about the Library of Congress' American Memory collections;

• Learn pedagogical strategies for integrating web-based archival material into classroom teaching and learning;

• Work with colleagues to create, 'road-test,' and publish an on-line lesson plan based on primary source materials from the American Memory collections;

American Memory Fellows Are Required To

• Form a 2-person team, with one member consisting of a humanities teacher or library-media specialist, and define a shared teaching objective in American history, language arts or social studies;

• Participate in all phases of the American Memory Fellows Program:
  1. On-line Orientation Seminar (June 4 - June 30, 2001)
  2. Institute (Six-day summer institute in Washington, DC, in one of two sections: July 15-20; July 22-27, 2001)
  3. Post-Institute On-line Discussions and classroom field test (August 2001-June 2002)

• Create, test, and revise a lesson plan based on the collections to be used with students in the 2001-2002 academic year;

• Disseminate their expertise with the American Memory materials in one or more professional forums during the fall of 2001 or the spring or summer of 2002.

American Memory Fellows Will Receive

• Transportation to Washington, DC, and a stipend of $1,200 to cover lodging and evening meals, with the remainder as an honorarium;

• Professional development in the use of web-based archival resources and the creation of model teaching materials;

• Opportunities to publish their high-quality work on-line, possibly as part of the Library of Congress American Memory Learning Page at http://learning.loc.gov/learn/.

Overview | Introduction | Selection Criteria | Inquiries & Submissions | Guidelines & Forms

last updated 05/25/01

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