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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Common Core State Standards, and many state content standards, emphasize reading informational text. Explore primary sources from the Library of Congress to discover informational text in many formats--including some formats that might surprise you.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Women filled a variety of roles in the Civil War. In addition to women who served as spies, daughters of regiments, cooks, laundresses, and nurses, approximately 400 posed as male soldiers. So, who were these hundreds of women soldiers? Why did they join? And how did they manage to do it?
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Veterans and Military History, Women's History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Primary sources can provide a window into the Great Migration, the largest internal migration in the history of the United States.
Posted in: African American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Informational text is more important to teachers than ever before, especially with the rise of the Common Core standards. The Library of Congress is an excellent resource for finding and using texts to build students' reading skills.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
“The Library of Congress means many different things to many people,” wrote Stephen Wesson at the start of the second year of the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. “But for teachers and students it represents a source of discovery and learning unlike any other.” He noted that the first year of the blog had looked at a variety of topics and provided teaching suggestions that help unlock the potential of our unique primary sources.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Teaching Strategies