Throughline: Primary Sources provide evidence of Expert Leadership.

Primary Source Images of America's Presidents

Examine the question: “How can we recognize expert leadership? “ through analysis of primary sources related to five different United States Presidents. Participants first choose an interesting printed primary source and then form small groups with participants who have chosen primary sources related to the same president.  After sharing participant names, teaching assignment, the chosen primary source item, and personal connection with the small group, participants brainstorm the skills, knowledge and experience that their president would have needed considering this primary source evidence. As a whole group a list is generated considering the skills, knowledge and experiences a president might have needed. Participants regroup by color of folder and share with their new group, their name, teaching assignment, the chosen primary source, and personal connection. After everyone in the small group shares, the participants create a theme or a “big idea” that could be used as a title for the collection of primary source items in their group (themes might be: conflict, change, economics, interaction, and international relations). Participants share their name, teaching assignment, primary source, personal connection, and theme with the large group. Participants consider the “big ideas” or themes that appear from the primary source evidence, to have confronted presidents over time and add new ideas to the list of knowledge, skills, and experiences that a president might need as an expert leader. Participants discuss the question, “How can we recognize expert leadership?” The model activity stops and participants are asked if they were implementing this activity with students what they might do next.

Following all model activities participants are asked to identify the Best Instructional Practices modeled, possible uses in their own setting, and what the model activity has taught about the Library resources.

  Economy Freedom International Relations Ritual War
George Washington Life of George Washington--The farmer

New song. To the tune of the British Grenadiers

 Appointment of Henry Lindsay in Citizen Genet's army George's Triumphal Archs East View of Gray's Ferry, near Philadelphia; with the Triumphal Arches, &c. erected for the Reception of General Washington, April 20th, 1789

The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet
Abraham Lincoln

Salmon P. Chase to Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1864 (Cover letter)

 The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet Abraham Lincoln, [December 1861] (Memorandum on Trent Affair) Lincoln vs Douglas Political Cartoon prior to the election of 1860 depicting Lincoln and Douglas in a footrace we'll sing to abe our song!': sheet music about lincoln, emancipation, and the civil war from alfred whital stern collection of lincolniana
Teddy Roosevelt

Social and Industrial Justice
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 Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing beside large globe, facing front Image of Theodore Roosevelt exiting a train, campaigning for presidential election. Roosevelt, the peace Victor; The President's song. 1905
Franklin Roosevelt New Deal industrial recovery

Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's lobbying efforts for federal action against lynchings, 19 March 1936

 Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on portico of Russian Embassy in Teheran, during conference--Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 1943 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administering the oath of office to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1941. President Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan
Woodrow Wilson President Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth Liberty Loan parade [1918] / [Hearst-Pathe News]

National American Women Suffrage, St. Louis, 3-25-19.

 Boundary between Turkey and Armenia : as determined by Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America / map

President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first ball, opening day, 1916

 Woodrow Wilson's speech notes, in shorthand, for his fourteen points address, [8 january 1918]