Fairfax Network | Primarily George

Primarily George

January 8, 2009 from 4-4:45 p.m. (ET) **new date & time**

for Educators

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This program is produced
in partnership with
George Washington’s
Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens,
through a generous grant from the
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

The program will feature educators from Mount Vernon, the National Archives, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Papers of George Washington. These educators will highlight online primary source documents, in their respective collections, that can be used to teach students about various aspects of George Washington and the founding era.

Panelists will discuss the challenges and best practices involved in teaching with primary source documents. They will also give brief overviews of the online collections that can be used to access the sources.

Primarily George: Selected Documents, from Mount Vernon's Education Department, is a compilation of lesson plans based on the primary source documents used in the broadcast.

“Primarily George”: Documents on the Nation’s First President from Massachusetts Historical Society's Education Department