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Posted by: Danna Bell
One of the things that makes teaching with primary sources wonderful is that they document what was happening at the time being studied. However, this is also why they can be problematic.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Anne Savage
Many cultures celebrate the end of the autumn harvest season. Use primary sources from the Library to help your students understand what life is like for the people who bring in the crops.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Alan Lomax and the staff from the Radio Research Project, a program sponsored by the Library of Congress to collect the stories of Americans from many walks of life, spread out around the United States to record comments about the Pearl Harbor bombing and the United States’ entry into World War II.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
What is the price of success? Inventors often stake their reputations and personal fortunes on their creations, but Orville and Wilbur Wright risked physical harm as well.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Stacie Moats
The familiar imagery of Thanksgiving has been put to many different uses over the years. Let your students explore how one cartoonist used the holiday to make points about President Theodore Roosevelt.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Holidays
Posted by: Anne Savage
Learn how to get started with an easy-to-use tool to guide students through primary source analysis.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The Library of Congress has many resources related to the experiences and contributions of Native Americans to our nation.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Harper Lee's tale of conflict in a small Alabama town is a perennial favorite with teachers. The Library's lesson plan "To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective", which uses photos and oral histories from the Library's collections, has always been fairly popular. This lesson plan has always been fairly popular. But in the past month, something unusual has happened.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature