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Planned Education Programming
Google Cultural Institute Exhibitions and Museum View
Launching Spring 2015
Ford’s Theatre is honored to partner with Google Cultural Institute to share interactive online
exhibitions about the Lincoln assassination, Ford’s Theatre and Petersen House history, and Lincoln’s
legacy. Additionally, explore Ford’s Theatre on Google Cultural Institute via Google Museum View,
which allows you to virtually walk through the Theatre, Petersen House and museum exhibitions as
if you are here on site.
Silent Witnesses School Visit Guide
Share elements of the special exhibition Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the Lincoln Assassination with
your students with a printed museum guide designed to transport you back to 1865. Download
from the Education or Museum pages of our website, or arrange in advance through our education
department.
Virtual Field Trip: Ford’s Theatre and the Petersen House
LIVE Thursday, March 26, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m. EST
Explore the history of Ford’s Theatre—LIVE!—with Discovery Education, National Park Service
rangers and some of the historical figures who were in the Theatre on the night of the assassination.
Virtual Field Trip Hangout
LIVE Tuesday, April 14, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. EST
If you miss it live on March 26, the Ford’s Theatre Virtual Field Trip will be available for viewing on
www.fords.org by April 13. Join the Education team on April 14 for a live, online Q and A session.
Online Author Visit with Historian James L. Swanson
To find out more about
these and other education
programs, visit
www.bitly.com/Fords150,
or contact
[email protected].
14 | Ford’s 150: Remembering the Lincoln Assassination
Spring 2015
This 45-minute virtual, interactive author visit is a chance for students around the
country to hear from the author of the widely read young-adult version of the
best-selling book Manhunt, Chasing Lincoln's Killer.
Summer Teacher Workshops: The Seat of War and Peace
July 5-11 and July 26-August 2, 2015
Join us for one of two week-long National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks workshops
for teachers. We will bring renowned scholars and teachers together to explore the Lincoln
assassination and its continuing resonance in American history through place-based learning,
digital learning resources and cutting-edge scholarship. These workshops are made possible by a
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Background photo © Maxwell McKenzie.