Headlines, History, and Hats: American Historical Newspapers and Chronicling America

Hello AHTC Teachers!

The Illinois Newspaper Project is bringing Deborah

Thomas from the Library of Congress to the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. You are all invited you to attend her presentation, "Headlines,
History, and Hats: American Historical Newspapers and Chronicling
America," at 10:00 a.m. in 126 GSLIS on Thursday, June 30.

Deborah Thomas, Program Coordinator for the National Digital Newspaper
Program at the Library of Congress, will talk about the effort to
digitize historically significant newspapers from all over the United
States and make them freely available through Chronicling America:
Historic American Newspapers, a web site hosted by the Library of
Congress.

In June 2009, the University of Illinois Library received funding from
the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National
Digital Newspaper Program. Four Illinois newspapers-The Chicago Eagle,
The Broad Ax, The Day Book, and The Cairo Bulletin-totaling 100,000 pages
of content have already been added to the Chronicling America repository.

Staff from the Illinois Newspaper Project, Mary Stuart (Principal
Investigator), Amy Sullivan (Preservationist and Project Coordinator),
and Tracy Nectoux (Cataloger and Metadata and Quality Review Specialist),
will be available to answer questions about the Illinois Newspaper
Project following the presentation.

Thursday, June 30, 2011
10:00 a.m.-noon
126 GSLIS
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Presentation free and open to the public

Krannert Center Prepares a Piece on the Great Migration

Teachers who attended the AHTC Immigration mini-Summer Institute will remember John Skrentny discussing the differences between immigration, emigration and migration. One of the most famous migrations in United States history is The Great Migration in the late 1920s. After the 1927 Mississippi River flood, thousands of Southern sharecroppers were displaced. The mass exodus of rural southern blacks to Northern cities promoted the spread of Delta blues music, which was reinterpreted in the North in various forms.

The Krannert Center has commissioned a piece inspired by this experience to premiere at ELLNORA on September 10, 2011. Grammy-award winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell has worked with filmmaker Bill Morrison to create a 75 minute work entitled The Great Flood. If you are interested in attending this show of bringing a group of students, please contact the Krannert Center's Engagement Director Sam Smith at smsmith3@illinois.edu, as he may be able to obtain reduced price or complimentary tickets for educators.

Additionally, Mr. Smith has worked with many local educators to collaborate with them on unit plans that utilize Krannert's resources or that integrate music into the unit. If you have ideas for lesson plans or units that would benefit from his expertise, please email him with your ideas.