TPS-UCF Newsletter February 2016

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? ~Katharine Anthony

Happy February!

The TPS-UCF has had an eventful

past few weeks.

It was great to see so many of you

at the SOURCES Annual

Conference on January 16th. If you

were unable to join us, but would

like to receive access to any digital

resources available from the

sessions, please e-mail tps@ucf.edu

with your best e-mail address.

Enjoy the newsletter!

- TPS-UCF Staff

On This Day: Galileo Faces Inquisition

On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo

Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican

theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially

faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead

guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by

Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near

Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.

Today, Galileo is recognized for making important contributions to the study of

motion and astronomy. His work influenced later scientists such as the English

mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who developed the law of

universal gravitation. In 1992, the Vatican formally acknowledged its mistake in

condemning Galileo. Read More Here, Courtesy of history.com

Today in History: February 13th

IN THIS ISSUE

TPS-UCF News 1

Today in History 1

News from LOC 2

Unrequited Love… 3

This Month in History 4

African American 5

History Month

Call for Articles 6

Updates & Reminders 7

If you want to understand today,

you have to search yesterday.

~ Pearl Buck

George Washington

http://tinyurl.com/huvbua4

National Maritime Museum, London

Galileo Galilei

New from Library of Congress:

Library of Congress 2016 Summer Teacher Institutes

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its week-long summer institutes for K-12

educators. Held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., this professional development

opportunity provides educators with tools and resources to effectively integrate primary sources into K-12

classroom teaching, with an emphasis on student engagement, critical thinking, and construction of

knowledge.

The Library is offering five programs this summer. Four of the programs are open to teachers and

librarians across all content areas. One focuses on primary sources in science, technology and

engineering. During each five-day institute, participants work with Library education specialists and

subject-matter experts to learn effective practices for using primary sources in the classroom, while

exploring some of the millions of digitized historical artifacts and documents available on the Library’s

website.

General Institutes – open to K-12 educators across all content areas:

· June 27-July 1

· July 11-15

· July 18-22

· July 25-29

Science, Technology, and Engineering Institute – recommended for K-12 educators who teach science,

technology, or engineering, or collaborate with those who do:

· June 20-24

Tuition and materials are provided at no cost. Participants will be responsible for transportation to and

from Washington, D.C., and any required overnight accommodations.

Applications are due February 29 and require a letter of recommendation. Read more and apply now!

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This month, the Rare Book of the Month is not actually a book but objects from the special collections within the Rare Book

and Special Collections Division. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we take a peek into the love life of James Madison through the

work of a remarkable early American artist by the name of Charles Willson Peale.

James Madison miniature.

Charles Willson Peale, 1783.

Rare Book and Special

Collections Division

Unrequited Love for the Ages

By Erin Allen: (The following is a guest blog post written by Elizabeth Gettins, Library of Congress digital library specialist.)

Fourth President of the United States James Madison (1751-1836) was called the “Father of the Bill

of Rights,” as well as the “Father of the Constitution.” He was also instrumental in reestablishing

the Library of Congress following the War of 1812.

While Madison is indeed an impressive historical figure, it appears that in person he may have

been less than an appealing catch to the ladies. Madison was known to perpetually suffer from

delicate health and was small of stature, even for the standards of his day. Records indicate that

he was only five feet, four inches and never weighed more than 100 pounds. He was also known

to be socially introverted. However, he had a keen mind and was a very diligent scholar – so

diligent in fact that it was thought to further exacerbate his health conditions.

Most men of Madison’s era married by their mid-twenties. Yet Madison did not advance a

marriage proposal until the relatively advanced age of 32. Catherine “Kitty” Floyd, the daughter

of a Continental Congress delegate, caught his eye. In 1783, as tokens of their mutual love,

Madison and Floyd exchanged ivory miniature portraits of themselves by the artist Charles

Willson Peale. As a special sign of esteem, Madison included a braided lock of his hair.

Unfortunately, this love was not destined to last as Kitty fell in love with another suitor and sent

Madison a rejection letter. Understandably, Madison was crushed.

Most men of Madison’s era married by their mid-twenties. Yet Madison did not advance a

marriage proposal until the relatively advanced age of 32. Catherine “Kitty” Floyd, the daughter

of a Continental Congress delegate, caught his eye. In 1783, as tokens of their mutual love,

Madison and Floyd exchanged ivory miniature portraits of themselves by the artist Charles

Willson Peale. As a special sign of esteem, Madison included a braided lock of his hair.

Unfortunately, this love was not destined to last as Kitty fell in love with another suitor and sent

Madison a rejection letter. Understandably, Madison was crushed.

This short courtship is frozen in time by the beautifully delicate and charming portraiture created by Peale. Peale was an

American renaissance man who rubbed elbows with many prominent politicians and businessmen of his day. He was born

in 1741 in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. At a young age, Peale showed promise in portraiture and studied under well-

established artists of his time, including John Hesselius, John Singleton Copley, John Beale Bordley and Benjamin West.

Peale went on to become a prolific artist, painting the portraits of prominent men of his time including Benjamin Franklin,

John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. An interesting side note about Peale is that he named all of his

children after artists or scientists. Three of his sons went on to paint themselves, including Rembrandt, Raphaelle and Titian

Peale. Peale and his son’s works made contributions towards documenting an early American nation and also of helping to

create an American sensibility in art.

While Madison’s love life did not travel an easy course, he did go on to have a happy ending. It was not until 11 years later

that he advanced another marriage proposal. This time he was successful and, at the age of 43, he married he married

Dolley Payne Todd (1768-1849) on Sept. 15, 1794. From all accounts, it was a happy marriage. Seventeen years his junior,

Dolley was a widow that Madison likely encountered at social events in the nation’s capital. She was known for her social

graces, which likely helped Madison’s popularity as president. The ever consummate hostess and decorator, Dolley went

on to give definition to the role that the wife of an American president played. The concept of First Lady took shape around

her pleasant and graceful entertaining skills.

Verso of oval portrait miniature showing Madison’s hair in braided pattern. 1783. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

February in History with the Library of Congress by Danna Bell

This post comes courtesy of Uhuru Flemming of the Library of Congress.

Many teachers like to include mini-lessons or bell-ringers about “this day in history.” The Library of Congress offers

two resources that recount what happened on a particular day using the Library’s collections of digitized primary

sources: Jump Back in Time (introductory) and Today in History (advanced). Choose the one that best matches your

students’ reading levels to build both content knowledge and research skills with primary sources in context

To my valentine, if you’ll be my partner I’ll always be true and save the best dances for no one but you. 1919

The signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance between France and the United States. Charles Mills

February highlights include the origins of Valentine’s Day (introductory;

advanced) and the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the

Treaty of Alliance (introductory; advanced), as well as milestones related

to:

The Arts

February 7, 1867: Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, author of the Little

House series was born (introductory; advanced),

February 10, 1927: Lyric soprano Leontyne Price was born in

Mississippi (introductory; advanced),

February 13, 1914: The American Society of Composers, Authors,

and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded (introductory; advanced),

February 27, 1807: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in

Portland, Maine (introductory; advanced);

Presidents

February 3, 1880: Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary about his

“sweet life” (introductory; advanced),

February 21, 1972: President Richard Nixon arrived in China for an

eight-day official visit (introductory; advanced).

To engage your students immediately, distribute or display one primary

source from an entry and invite them to jot down a single detail they notice

and then share. To draw your students deeper into analyzing the primary

sources, ask them to record observations, reflections and questions on the

Library’s primary source analysis tool. Anne Savage offers tips in the Blog

Round-Up: Using the Primary Source Analysis Tool.

Use the list of additional resources at the end of each Today in History entry to search for additional primary

sources.

Some of our favorite ideas for using these resources came in the comments reacting to Primary Sources Every

Day from the Library of Congress. Let us know how you use them!

African American History Month By: Erin Allen

(The following article by Audrey Fischer is from the January/February 2016 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine,

LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.)

One man’s dedication to a field of study inspired the moniker “the father of African American

history.”

With this year’s theme of “Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories,” 2016

African American History Month will be celebrated in schools, libraries and other cultural

institutions throughout the month of February.

One such sacred ground is 1538 Ninth Street N.W. in Washington, D.C., home to Carter G.

Woodson, pictured above, (1875-1950), the Harvard-educated historian who established

Black History Week in 1926. The property was declared a National Historic Site in 1976—

the same year that the recognition of African Americans’ contributions to the nation was

extended to a month-long celebration.

In his “Message on the Observance of Black History Month” in February 1976, President Gerald

Ford acknowledged Woodson’s founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH)

as a way to document those contributions. The organization was founded in 1915 at the house on Ninth Street, where

Carter lived until his death in 1950. With more than 25 branches, the membership organization holds an annual

convention in cities across the nation.

Woodson believed that, “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which

comes from the teaching of biography and history.” He devoted his life to researching, publishing and increasing public

awareness of black history and culture.

Woodson researched his dissertation at the Library of Congress, where he

was encouraged by Manuscript Division Chief J. Franklin Jameson to seek

funding to further his goals. With a grant from the Carnegie Foundation,

Woodson founded the ASAALH. In 1929 and 1938, Woodson donated

his papers to the Library of Congress. The bulk of the collection’s 18,000

items have been microfilmed and the film is available in the Library’s

Manuscript Reading Room.

The collection includes primary documents relating to African-American life

and history during the slavery, Reconstruction and “New South” eras. It also includes material related to Woodson’s

editing of the “Encyclopedia Africana,” a comprehensive guide to African peoples, leaders, and luminaries in Africa, the

United States, South America, the Caribbean, and worldwide. The unpublished research for that ambitious publication,

along with other unique items, makes the collection a valuable resource for scholars and students of African American

history.

Carter G. Woodson, 1947.

Prints and Photographs

Division.

Carter G. Woodson House at 1538 Ninth

Street N.W. Washington, D.C.

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We are seeking contributions from education based professionals in the form of short articles

(approximately 500 words). How often do you here about the wonderful ways in which

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The primary aims of the TPS-UCF Newsletter is to, 1) provide a forum for a diverse set of voices

to share their expertise, experiences and ideas regarding the use of primary sources, 2) to

create a valuable outlet for dissemination of knowledge on teaching with primary sources, and

3) to build a vibrant educational community of professionals and educational thought leaders

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If one could make alive again for the other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath

and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! ~George Macaulay Trevelyn

~ SOURCES 2nd Annual Conference.

We will soon be distributing digital materials. If you have yet to supply yours, please do

so by February 22nd (e-mail to tps@ucf.edu)

~ Library of Congress Summer Institutes

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Updates & Reminders

The challenge of

history is to

recover the past

and introduce it to

the present.

~David Thelen

Program Staff

Dr. Scott M. Waring

Director of the Teaching with Primary Sources

Program at the University of Central Florida

Ashley M. Furgione

Program Coordinator of the Teaching with Primary

Sources Program at the University of Central Florida