Anatomy of 1860s Dress

Well done article with pictures.
http://romantichistory.blogspot.com/2009/06/anatomy-of-1860s-dress.html

On-line Book: Draping Period Costumes: Classical Greek to Victorian

ISSUU is a very interesting site that offers free e-magazines.  Some are full magazines and others are just samplers from the issue.  The link below is a complete book with tips on draping various eras of period costumes.  If you are interested in the 1840 and 50s, there are some nice styles.  The eras continue through the bustle period.  Hope this will be something you can use.
http://issuu.com/sherifabid/docs/0240821335costumes

Be a History Detective

You can take the teacher out of the classroom but they still are looking for ways to better engage the students in learning...go figure.  Even after nearly five years, I still look at websites with an eye to how they would motivate kids.  I found this one on a newsletter I receive and just couldn't resist it because it makes students think about history and how it relates to them.  For those of you still in  teaching, this is something for your classroom.  Even if you aren't in a formal classroom setting, look at this to help you improve your Living History impression.

Be a History Detective

Teachinghistory.org offers two online interactive posters that show students how to work like historians. “Doing History is Like Solving a Mystery” is an interactive poster for elementary school students. The poster uses images with notes to guide students through the process of developing good research questions and recording their ideas. “History is an Argument About the Past” is an interactive poster for middle school and high school students. The poster walks students through identifying primary and secondary sources of information and using that information to create an argument.
Click Here to Access Free Elementary Poster
Click Here to Access Free Secondary Poster

Plus: Use the Civil War Interactive Poster to begin a conversation with students about what we know about the past and especially about our nation’s most deadly conflict, the Civil War.

Click Here to Access Free Civil War Poster

Connect Ideas in Historic Documents Imagination and vision played critical roles in the creative act of forming a self-governing United States of America. The Library of Congress’s Creating the United States website offers an opportunity for students to learn in a fresh new way how the founding documents that emerged  from this period were forged out of insight, invention and creativity, as well as collaboration and much compromise. The site features three interactives that invite students to connect particular phrases and ideas set down in the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights with the texts that preceded these historic documents. Click Here to Visit Website Click Here to Access Free Interactives

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