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The Tennessee State Library and Archives is a great resource for teachers seeking primary sources for use in classroom instruction. Educators and students are welcome to utilize our website or visit us in person to access these primary source materials.
The Library and Archives Education Outreach E-Newsletter features our most current education-related news. For more information about our program, contact Kelly Wilkerson at Kelly.Wilkerson@tn.gov or visit our website
Casey Gymrek, Education Specialist
Casey Gymrek, Education Specialist
Note from the Education Coordinator
I’m thrilled to announce that we have expanded our education outreach department! Casey Gymrek began work in September at the Library and Archives as our education specialist. Going forward, there will be two of us offering educator workshops, welcoming students to the Library and Archives and conducting research in our collections to bring more primary sources to Tennessee’s K-12 community. Casey will also take on the production of this newsletter.                                                                          
Casey holds a masters’ degree in public history from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). She worked previously at the Albert Gore Research Center at MTSU, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Nantucket Historical Association, the Strawberry Banke Museum, and the Southwest Florida Museum of History. Casey’s experience working with youth audiences and her passion for history education will make her a great asset to our Education Outreach team.
Feel free to reach out to her with questions or suggestions for this newsletter at Casey.Gymrek@tn.gov or by phone at 615-979-6113. 

Kelly Wilkerson
Education Outreach Coordinator
615-253-3469
Looking Back at Tennessee Photograph Collection
Featured Primary Source 
Boys, Decide Between Us and Booze - Taken in Pulaski, in approximately 1910, this photograph shows students from the Martin Female College (now Martin Methodist College) sitting in a wagon with a sign reading “BOYS, decide between US and BOOZE.” The women are dressed in matching uniforms protesting men’s consumption of alcohol.
Groups advocating for temperance began as early as the 1820s, though Congress did not pass the National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, until October 1919. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union and other like-minded organizations established local chapters in Tennessee cities and towns in the late 1800s, advocating for prohibition. In 1909, the Tennessee General Assembly recognized the efforts of these groups and passed a law outlawing the production of alcohol in the state.
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the production, sale, and transport of alcohol within the country for 13 years. In 1933, Congress passed the 21st Amendment, which overturned the previous amendment, giving legal control of alcohol back to state governments. However, Tennessee’s ban on alcohol remained in effect until 1937 and some counties remain “dry” even today.
This source meets the 5.40 and US.37 Tennessee social studies standards.
For more information, please visit the 1920s and the Great Depression page and “The Saloon and Anarchy: Prohibition in Tennessee” online exhibit.

Upcoming Professsional Development Opportunities for Teachers 
Conferences
October 23-26 - Tennessee Educational Leadership Conference (LEAD) at Music City Center, Nashville 
November 3-5 - Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) at Embassy Suites, Murfreesboro
November 6-7 - Tennessee Association of Independent Schools Biennial Conference (TAIS) at McCallie School, Chattanooga
Library and Archives Sponsored Workshops
Tennessee Historical Society T-100 Collection
For the 2016-2017 school year, the Library and Archives education team will be focusing our teacher workshops on the fourth & eighth grade standards covering early Tennessee settlements.
We’ll be examining primary sources related to the Watauga Association, the Cumberland Settlement, the Lost State of Franklin, and the challenges that arose between the Indian populations inhabiting the area and the white settlers who pursued westward expansion. Workshop dates locations are listed below. Additional cities may be added!
November 29 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: Memphis Teaching and Learning Academy, 2485 Union Ave., Memphis
 
January 26 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: MTSU Heritage Center, 225 W College St., Murfreesboro
 
March 21 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S Gay St., Knoxville
 
April 4 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: Jackson-Madison County Library, 8 Stonebridge Blvd., Jackson
 
April 5 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: Discovery Park of America, 830 Everett Blvd., Union City
 
June 7 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: Sycamore Shoals, 1651 W Elk Ave., Elizabethton
 
June 22 – Westward, Ho! Tennessee Becomes a State
Location: Chattanooga Public Library, 1001 Broad St., Chattanooga
 
If you'd like to have the Tennessee State Library and Archives provide professional development for teachers in your community, please contact Kelly.Wilkerson@tn.gov.
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