Each President & First Lady Has a Story

May 15, 2012

National Council for History Education Conference, October 17 to 18, 2003, Los Angeles, California Presenters:Professor Barbara Bennett Peterson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon:Cyndy Bittinger, Executive Director, The Calvin Coolidge Memorial […]

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The Presidency in the Popular Imagination

May 14, 2012

National Council for History Education Conference, October 18-20, 2001 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Panel: Sheldon Stern, historian emeritus, The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, […]

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Coolidge School

May 14, 2012

Which school did Calvin Coolidge attend? Both of the photographs say Calvin Coolidge attended that school but only one is right! The original one-room stone school at Plymouth Notch was […]

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Teaching the Presidency

May 11, 2012

National Council for History Education Conference, October 18-20, 2001 At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The Presidency in the Popular Imagination Each President & First Lady […]

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Outreach Programs

May 10, 2012

Painting by Arthur Keller: “The Swearing in of Calvin Coolidge by His Father”, used with permission from VT Division for Historic Preservation. Picture courtesy Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, President […]

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