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Exploring Mount Vernon
Wednesday February 15, 2012 @ 9:00 AM CT

Explore Mount Vernon Estate, historic home of our nation’s first president. This live interactive electronic field trip targets students in grades 4-8. Students will be able to question experts and access a wealth of information from historical interpreters.

The trip will also be broadcast live on LPB2.

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When Freedom Came
Thursday, February 16, 2012 @ 9:00 AM CT

Everyone knows Abraham Lincoln freed all the slaves . . . or did he? Freedom came to enslaved people over the course of many months and years — and it arrived in different ways in different places. Discover how enslaved Americans made everyday choices during the Civil War that helped bring about their freedom.

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Remember the Ladies
Thursday, March 15, 2012 @ 9:00 AM CT

In 1776, Abigail Adams requested that her husband, future president John Adams, "remember the ladies" when establishing the government and laws of the new nation. Examine the roles, responsibilities, and daily activities of early American women.

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Rights of Youth
Thursday, April 19, 2012 @ 9:00 AM CT

Imprisonment, whipping, forced transportation, and even death were some of the punishments that courts sentenced children to in the eighteenth century. Witness how justice was administered at a time when criminal laws and sentencing guidelines made few or no exceptions for children.