Top of page
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The Teaching with the Library of Congress blog offers many entry points to primary sources from the Library of Congress to help your students study and honor the contributions of veterans.
Posted in: Holidays, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Have you ever wondered, “is it really possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk if it is hot enough?” or “why do pigeons bob their heads when they walk?” Answers to these and many other science questions can be found on the Library of Congress website Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the Science Reference Section.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
November highlights include Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address and the opening of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
For aficionados of history, graveyards are not creepy settings for Halloween movies, but an opportunity to study human customs and cultural norms of the past and present. The way graves are adorned and the epitaphs they bear can give us information about one life, but can also encourage us to wonder about the people they commemorate and their cultures.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Holidays
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The Teaching with the Library of Congress blog has published a number of posts highlighting primary sources related to the rich traditions of Native Americans.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a soldier in the Civil War? Hopefully my work this summer will help answer just that.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The Library's new primary source set, "Civil War Soldiers' Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection," brings students face to face with some of the everyday men and boys who fought in the Civil War. The Civil War was the most photographed war of its era, and the Library's new primary source set, "Civil War Soldiers' Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection," brings students face to face with some of the men and boys who fought in the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
These resources offer an enormous variety of choices and unleash students' imaginations as to how they want to tell the story. We start with the available analysis tool and teacher’s guides and work from those to expand our projects.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Teaching Strategies