Watch David McCullough's Webcast on George Washington
RSSSLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 02/12/2008
Librarians and teachers who want to make President's Day more than just another day off from school will have a rare opportunity on February 13 to connect their classes to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough for an online interactive session on, what else? George Washington.
The Webcast will take place from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (EST) and is available for free at www.ConSource.org, a Web site described by its creator, the Constitutional Sources Project, as "the only free, fully-indexed online library of Constitutional sources."
The McCullough event, also sponsored by the History Channel, the New York Historical Society, Ustream.TV, and Verizon Thinkfinity.org, will feature McCullough teaching a lesson about our first president and using documents from a new collection of Washington's papers. The event is described as appropriate for sixth to 12th graders. A mini-site will provide supplemental resources for teachers.
McCullough, the recipient of two National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, has been described as a "master of the art of narrative history." In December he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His most recent book, 1776 (S&S, 2005), was a New York Times bestseller in both its hardcover and paperback editions.
