Every in-school program features an educator bringing replicas of artifacts, paintings, and documents into your classroom to illuminate the stories of our collective past. In the process, students develop their critical and historical thinking skills while expanding their understanding of the complicated story of the United States.

Is your school or class interested? Choose a level below to see a comprehensive list of topics. Then, contact us and a representative will be in touch shortly to discuss program details.

Then and Now (Grades K-2)

Students will explore artifacts and images from the Troup County Archives collections to compare daily life today with the lives of people who lived long ago and think critically about how and why life has changed.

Topics

  • Objects Then and Now
  • Schools Then and Now
  • Portraits Then and Now
  • Clothing Then and Now
  • Play Then and Now
  • Jobs Then and Now
  • Cooking Then and Now
  • Transportation Then and Now

Families and Communities (Grades K-2)

Using artifacts and images, students will explore how life in West Georgia has changed over time as they meet families from different cultures and time periods.

Topics

  • Meet a Family from the 1790s
  • West Georgia in the 1790s
  • Meet a Family from the 1830s
  • West Georgia in the 1830s
  • Meet a Family from the 1940s
  • West Georgia in the 1940s

Geography (Grades K-2)

Students will develop foundational historical skills as they explore the geography of West Georgia and learn how the area became what it is today.

Topics

  • Learning History with Objects
  • Learning History with Images
  • Learning History with Maps
  • Rural or Urban
  • Transportation Then and Now

Being a Historian (Grades 3-5)

This series introduces students to the techniques used by historians to study the past as they build critical thinking and literacy skills.

Topics

  • Objects Tell Stories
  • Learning to Read Images
  • Learning History with Images
  • Learning to Read a Map
  • Learning History with Maps
  • Learning to Read a Document
  • Learning History with Documents

High School

High School Students will gain a more nuanced understanding of American history by investigating the experiences of all types of people living in the United States using objects, images and documents.

Topics

  • West Georgia’s First People
  • Age of Exploration
  • Beyond the Treaty Lines
  • Settlement in West Georgia
  • Troup County and the Civil War

High School

Students will use multiple resources that highlight the ways people experienced and reacted to the major events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Topics

  • Reconstruction
  • Industrialization
  • Manifest Destiny
  • World War I
  • Women’s changing role from 1900 to 1920
  • The Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Civil Rights