Virtual Lesson

Meet with a staff member via Zoom, Google Classroom, or the software of your choice. This program can be streamed into classrooms or to individuals for remote learning. Students will have an approximately 30 minute lesson including an activity relating to the topic. Topics include, Early Lombard History, Underground Railroad, Turn of the Century Lombard and Immigration, Mystery Artifacts, and More! Lessons work as a single session, or as a series.

Programs are for Grades 2 and up.

Documentary

In partnership with Tim Frakes Production Inc., Lombard Historical Society has created several documentaries about the History of Lombard. Teachers would receive access to the documentary as well as supplemental lesson plans for group discussions.

All Citizens: Learn about Ellen Martin and the 14 other women who were the first women to vote in the state of Illinois in 1891, 29 years before the passage of the 19th Amendment. Learn the story behind the people who made it possible for these women to vote, and the act of courage and civic duty deemed a right to All Citizens.

Sheldon Peck: Portrait of an Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times: Learn about the family who built the first home in Lombard. Sheldon Peck is an itinerant folk artist who captures stunning likenesses in paint of the average person. He was also a radical abolitionist who housed Freedom Seekers in his home and worked to secure them passage to Canada and freedom. Learn how these intersect in the subjects of his portraits.

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