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You Are Invited To A
TEACHER RECEPTION
And Complimentary Viewing of Wilson 150: The Exhibition
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
4 p.m.
415 Seventh Street, Augusta
RSVP 706-724-0436 or julia@historicaugusta.org
Wilson 150: The Exhibition
December 7, 2007-May 23, 2008
Historic Augusta is hosting a traveling exhibition of Woodrow Wilson artifacts and documents through May 23, 2008. The exhibition is on view at the Joseph R. Lamar Boyhood Home, located at 415 Seventh Street in downtown Augusta. All are encouraged to see the exhibition and to tour the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson, the home in which the future President lived from the ages of 3-13. The Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson is located at 419 Seventh Street.
About Wilson 150: The Exhibition
Currently on display at the Joseph R. Lamar Boyhood Home are mementos of President Woodrow Wilson’s personal and public lives. The pen that signed the declaration of war and the first shell fired by American troops during WWI are juxtaposed to objects such as Wilson’s typewriter and his golf club and golf balls, including one painted red so the President could play in winter.
The exhibition began in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2006 as part of a yearlong celebration of Wilson’s 150th birthday and has traveled to other Wilson sites including the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia and Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton, New Jersey. After Augusta, the exhibition will travel to the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina.
Eight themes are explored in the exhibition, each examining Woodrow Wilson as perceived by the public and countering that perception by explaining the private persona. Wilson is often remembered as a stern scholarly figure, stiff and awkward. However, Woodrow Wilson had great depth of character and was an incredibly sensitive, intelligent, and sometimes even silly, person. As a scholar, educator, and world statesman, he used these personal qualities to bring the United Sates into the forefront of world politics and secure its position as a world superpower. He might never have created the League of Nations, forerunner to the United Nations, without an intense awareness of the needs of his own country as well as those foreign. His strong character and religious convictions gave him the courage to fight for what he believed, regardless of the effect on his personal prestige. The exhibition examines Wilson’s triumphs and failings, and complex and timely issues such as Wilson’s progressive ideas and wartime foreign relations.
For more information, contact Historic Augusta at (706) 724-0436.
Plan Your Visit
Wilson 150: The Exhibition is on view at the Joseph R. Lamar Boyhood Home located at 415 Seventh Street in downtown Augusta. The exhibition is open from 10 am-5 pm, Tuesdays-Saturdays through May 23, 2008. Admission to the exhibition is free with paid admission to the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson, located adjacent to the Joseph R. Lamar Boyhood Home at 419 Seventh Street. Tickets to the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson cost $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $3 for students K-12. Group rates are available.
School groups are encouraged to visit Wilson 150: The Exhibition. Please call Historic Augusta at (706) 724-0436 to discuss special pricing and to schedule your visit. Allow 15-45 minutes to tour Wilson 150: The Exhibition and 45 minutes to tour the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson.
For Teachers
Educational materials relating to President Woodrow Wilson and his achievements, including lesson plans, have been developed by the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., the President’s final residence, and by the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Birthplace in Staunton, Virginia. Use the following links to access the educational materials:
Wilson 150: The Exhibition and a tour of the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson meets or complements the following educational standards:
Georgia Performance Standards by grade:
1: SS1H1
2: SS2H1, SS2CG2
3: SS3CG2, SS3G2, SS3H2
4: SS4CG2, SS4CG5, SS4H7
5: SS5CG3, SS5H1, SS5H2, SS5H4
8: SSH86, SSH87, SS8RC1d
11: SSCG12, SSCG13, SSCG20, SSEF5, SSUSH15
QCC Standards by grade for Social Studies:
1: 20,21, 23, 35, 38, 39
2: 14, 28, 31
3: 24, 42, 43, 47
4: 27, 28, 29, 44, 45
5: 1, 2, 3, 12, 14, 18, 19, 43, 44
Press Photos
The following link opens a PDF with all of the press photos www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/Images/WoodrowWilsonPictures.pdf.
Please credit any photos used to: Woodrow Wilson House, a National Trust Historic Site, Washington, D.C., unless otherwise noted in the PDF file.
Sponsors
Wilson 150: The Exhibition was organized by the Woodrow Wilson House, a National Trust Historic Site, Washington, D.C., and made possible by the leadership support of The History Channel, Security Storage, by funding from the Interpretation and Education Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and additional funding for the electronic media by The Institute of Museum and Library Services, A Federal Agency. Wilson 150: The Exhibition is sponsored locally by Historic Augusta, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Sosnin, Laure and Barry Whitney, Clear Channel Radio and NBC Augusta.
For more information
contact:
The Boyhood Home of
President Woodrow Wilson
419 Seventh Street
Augusta, GA 30901
706-722-9828 |
