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Posted by: Danna Bell
Did you know that in addition to celebrating the creation of the Constitution on September 17th, the United States also celebrates Citizenship Day?
Posted in: Constitution, Government and Law, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
I also understand that a lecture, textbook, or slideshow will not engage students in the same way as a primary document. I am thrilled to begin as Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress for 2017-2018.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, News and Events, World History
Posted by: Danna Bell
The start of the school year also brings with it the start of Poetry 180, and this year is particularly exciting—we’ve added 10 new poems to the mix.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Are you coming to the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival ? It's this Saturday, September 2nd at the Washington Convention Center.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
This summer, I had the distinct honor of being selected to be a Junior Fellow here at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners
Posted by: Danna Bell
I manage the Library's Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program, which brings undergraduate and graduate students to work on an array of projects across the Library for 10 weeks. I am also involved in the Library’s social media initiative as the manager of the Twitter page for the World Digital Library. WDL is an international initiative that partners with institutions worldwide to provide free access to digitized historical and cultural treasures from around the world. (We also tweet in seven languages!)
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
As Americans anxiously await next week's total eclipse of the sun, many are making plans not only to observe it, but also to record their observations in order to calculate their longitude. Or maybe not...But in 1811, when the solar eclipse that occurred on Constitution Day was visible in central Virginia, that is exactly what Thomas Jefferson did.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
I also work in the Library of Congress Young Readers Center (YRC) on a part-time basis. We welcome children and families who are visiting the Library, as well as groups of K-12 students, and assist them in using our diverse collection of nearly 7,000 books for young people. I assist in coordinating special events for kids, including children’s author talks, many of which are now live streamed and accessible to students anywhere.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners
Posted by: Danna Bell
As one of the historians in the Manuscript Division, one of Sahr Conway-Lanz's primary responsibilities is collecting archival materials that document the foreign policy and military history of the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Interviews with Experts