06
November
2024

Community Anchor Program

Announcing the 2025 Presidential Primary Sources Project Series

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By Therese Perlowski - Program Manager, Internet2 Community Anchor Program

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The Internet2 Community Anchor Program is proud to announce the new lineup for the 2025 Presidential Primary Sources Project (PPSP), a series of free, standards-aligned, 45-minute interactive videoconferencing webinars aimed at students in grades 4-12. PPSP is made possible through a partnership with the National Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration, Presidential Libraries and Museums, the Internet2 community, and cultural and historic organizations nationwide.

The series will run from January through April of 2025. In addition to the interactive video component, each program will be live-streamed and recorded for on-demand viewing for free.

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Registration is now open – Visit the PPSP website for more information and sign up today!

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With guidance from National Park Service rangers and library educators, students will learn how to use and analyze primary sources to better understand the historical legacies of our nation’s presidents.

“These programs were informative, engaging, and created a great sense of curiosity with students in my classroom,” a former PPSP teacher participant shared. “They really drew on students’ observation and analysis skills and made critical thinking a key aspect of the presentation, no answers were given – primary sources were just evaluated.”

Want to get an idea of what to expect from PPSP? Watch part of the recording from one of last year’s most popular PPSP sessions. Alex Wood, Ford’s Theatre, and Jenn Epstein, National Mall and Memorial Parks, guide students through understanding the stages from which we remember President Lincoln and in reflecting on things that mattered to him and still matter to us today: unity, creativity, and the right to rise.


View the 2025 PPSP Schedule

*All programs are live at 11 a.m. ET and 2 p.m. ET on their scheduled day and applicable to students grades 4-12.

Date Program
January 14 NASA: The Beginning of a New Frontier, Eisenhower Foundation
January 16 An Old and Haunting Dream: Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Popular Imperialism, The Hermitage & Theodore Roosevelt Center
January 21 The First 100 Days: FDR Set the Benchmark, Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
January 23 The Constitution and Presidential Powers, National Archives and Records Administration
January 30 Camping and Tramping in New York, Maine, and North Dakota: Theodore Roosevelt’s Changing Concept of Wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library & Theodore Roosevelt Center
February 4 The Unexpected Presidencies, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
February 11 Before and After: Capturing Presidents through Portraiture, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
February 13 Talk, Text, and Televise: Communication in the White House, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, & Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
February 18 Vote & Be Counted! Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
February 20 A Crusade for Peace: Eisenhower and Korea, Eisenhower National Historic Site
February 25 Two Days in Texas, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
February 27 The Tuskegee Airman, Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
March 4 Lou Henry Hoover: Challenging Conventions Since 1898, Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
March 6 The Saxton House Tour, First Ladies National Historic Site
March 11 Frontier Adventures, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHS and Lincoln Boyhood NM
March 13 202 Years of Presidential Connections, Governors Island National Monument
March 18 The Cold War and the Carter Administration, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
March 20 A Monumental Legacy: The Story of Grant’s Tomb, General Grant National Memorial
March 25 Lincoln’s Lasting Words, Ford’s Theatre and National Mall and Memorial Parks
March 27 From General to Citizen: Washington’s Resignation as Commander in Chief, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
April 1 Leadership in a Time of Crisis: The Oklahoma City Bombing, Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
April 3 President Grant and Civil Rights, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

Register for one or more of the Presidential Primary Sources Project’s free, interactive sessions today!

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Therese Perlowski tperlowski@internet2.edu

Program Manager, Internet2 Community Anchor Program

Therese Perlowski is the Program Manager of the Community Anchor Program, where she works with internal and external stakeholders to demonstrate the value of advanced networking and identity services to community anchors across the nation. She works with CAP’s regional network partners to identify, nurture, and implement networking services, applications, and programmatic opportunities that enable Community Anchor Institutions to better serve their communities.
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