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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION -- 2009
FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION COMMITTEE
Presidential Inauguration Committee’s official web site that includes many links and features about the upcoming event on Jan. 20 th. Swearing-in ceremony starts at 10:00 am (EST)
See : Event schedule & updates: http://www.pic2009.org/pages/schedule/
JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON INAUGURAL CEREMONIES
Congressional web site lists events including the ceremony, parade, and other festivities such as inaugural balls. For those planning to attend there are downloadable maps, directions, and program.
NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: INAUGURAL THEME
To honor the 200 anniversary of Lincoln's birth, the ceremonies will feature this theme. This page is from the above web site provided by the Congress.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S HOME
Host to the ceremonies, D.C. has many links for those planning to visit, view, and learn more.
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Brief history of inauguration ceremonies.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/ I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR
LC and other institutions offer a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. The presentation, I Do Solemnly Swear includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music
SOME MEDIA LINKS FOR TEACHERS
C-SPAN'S INAUGURATION PAGE
Lesson plans/printable worksheets etc.
PBS: OBAMA'S INAUGURATON PLANS CELEBRATE DIVERSITY
Lesson ideas and discussion questions.
PBS: OBAMA'S TRANSITION TO POWER
Links to transition team web site, list of appointments thus far.
PBS: TEACHING THE INAUGURATION
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1/11/09