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Archive: November 2017 (6 Posts)

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Join Us at NCSS in San Francisco

Posted by: Danna Bell

Education specialists from the Library of Congress and members of the Library's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium are looking forward to meeting with you and sharing ideas on using primary sources in the classroom during the NCSS conference in San Francisco from November 16-18.

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Providing Comfort for Veterans: Primary Sources from the Civil War and Beyond

Posted by: Danna Bell

A number of years ago I published a blog post on wartime clothing drives. I touched briefly on clothing drives and the work to make handmade items for those serving in the military. As I considered what to write about for a post on Veterans Day, I was drawn back to this post.