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The Bonus March: How to Teach History with a Civics Lesson
November 3, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Elizabeth Dinschel, Archivist and Education Specialist for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum via Zoom on Tuesday, November 3, 2021 at 4:00 PM.
In 1932, World War I veterans boarded freight trains from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, DC, to lobby Congress for early payment of a bonus that was scheduled to be paid in 1945. On July 28th, 1932, the police, and later the military, put down a riot made up of nearly 60,000 Bonus Marchers. This webinar will show how to blend primary sources, historic narrative, and civics into an inquiry arc using the Bonus March.
This program is presented as a partnership with the Lou Frey Institute at the University of Central Florida; the Florida Joint Center for Citizenship; the Florida Association of Social Studies Supervisors; and the Florida Council for the Social Studies.