Updated with more Inaugural resources: Jan. 22, 2013
Though President Obama actually took the oath of office on Jan. 20, public inaugural celebrations take place on Jan. 21, the same day that Martin Luther King will be celebrated this year.
In honor of both of these occasions, this will be our only post on Monday. Below, some resources for teaching and learning about each.
Martin Luther King Day
The slide show of historic Times photos about the Civil Rights Movement at the top of this post is a collection we first published last February. You might apply the three questions we ask weekly in our What’s Going On in This Picture? series to any one of them to think more about what is depicted, why and who.
Below, more from The Learning Network about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement — each with links to historic Times articles, lesson plans, crosswords, Student Opinion questions and more:
- Celebrating MLK Day
- Reader Ideas: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
- Resources: Black History Month
- Historic Headlines: April 4, 1968 | The Assassination of Martin Luther King
If you were to write your own Inaugural Address, what would you say?
How would you draw on America’s past while acknowledging the present moment? How would you unite Americans? What challenges would you note, and what would you say about the role of government?
One way to play with those questions is through The Times’s interactive Build Your Own Inaugural Address. Below, more resources for celebrating Inauguration Day:
On the 2013 Inauguration
- Article | Obama Offers Liberal Vision: ‘We Must Act’
- Interactive | President Obama’s Inaugural Address
- Slide Show | President Obama’s Second Inauguration
- Interactive | A Closer Look at the Inaugural Ceremony
- News Analysis | A Call for Progressive Values: Evolved, Unapologetic and Urgent
- Article | Speech Gives Climate Goals Center Stage
- Op-Ed | A Map of Human Dignity
- Article | A Day of Celebration for a Diverse Crowd Savoring a Moment in History
- Article | Washington Prepares for Festive but Scaled-Down Version of 2009 Events
- Room for Debate Forum | What Should Obama Say?
- Op-Ed | A Sneaky Peek at Obama’s Speech
- Article | As Droves Flock to Washington, Republicans Find Somewhere Else to Be
On Inaugural Speeches and Celebrations Past:
- 2013 Graphic | Annotating the Second Inaugural Addresses
- 2009 Illustration | Maira Kalman | The Inauguraton. At Last (2009)
- 2009 Lesson Plan | An Oath for the Ages: Examining Historic Inaugural Addresses (2009)
- 2009 Lesson Plan | Hope in a Capsule: Creating Predictions and Times Capsules to Mark President Obama’s Inauguration
On President Obama’s First Term
- 2013 Graphic | First-Term Promises Made, Kept and Broken
- 2013 Article | Change Comes: After 4 Years, Friends See Shifts in the Obamas
- 2013 Article | Obama’s First Term: A Romantic Oral History
- 2013 Article | A White House Aware of Second-Term Perils
- 2013 Essay | Managing the Oval Office
- 2009 Lesson Plan | Promises and Priorities: Assessing President Obama’s First 100 Days in Office
- 2012 Resource Collection | Election 2012