Charlie Birger and Prohibition Days in Southern Illinois
During the fall 2020 semester, teacher education students at SIU utilized primary sources from the Library of Congress and developed lessons to compliment the Blanket Fort Radio Theater’s podcast series for the book, A Knight of Another Sort: Charlie Birger and Prohibition Days in Southern Illinois. A team of SIU graduate students helped expand the content of these lessons to create Interactive Modules with H5P digital technology. Each module includes an essential question (e.g. To what extent was Charlie Birger an “untouchable” and able to defy justice?) to guide the learner’s analysis, corroboration, and synthesis of conflicting primary sources. For additional information about this project, listen to Educating with Evidence Project Director Dr. Grant Miller introduce the focus for this curriculum in an episode of Inside the Blanket Fort Radio Theater.
