Celebrating Father’s Day with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the origins of Father’s Day.
Posted in: Government and Law, Holidays
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Food, Fun, and Primary Sources: Celebrating Holidays
Posted by: Danna Bell
As we prepare for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, many in our office find ourselves thinking of, and talking about, food
Posted in: Holidays
Remembering Our Honored Dead: A Memorial Day Round Up
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn more about Memorial Day and how it has been commemorated using the following blog posts from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Holidays, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History
Exploring Chronicling America for Poetry in Newspapers Before 1922
Posted by: Danna Bell
For National Poetry month the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers database offers a trove of poetry treasures waiting to be discovered.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature
One Week Left to Apply for Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institutes…Apply by March 17!
Posted by: Danna Bell
The deadline is rapidly approaching to apply for one of the five week-long Summer Teacher Institutes being held at the Library of Congress between June and August this year.
Posted in: News and Events
Applications Being Accepted for WWI-themed Summer Teacher Institute for Educators!
Posted by: Danna Bell
From July 31-August 4, the Library of Congress will host a special 5-day WWI-themed Summer Teacher Institute. The session is open to any K-12 educator interested in teaching with primary sources.
Posted in: News and Events
Women Documenting History: Primary Sources from the Library of Congress on Women Photojournalists
Posted by: Danna Bell
You and your students may know the names of Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, or Clare Boothe Luce. Fewer, however, will know the names of the photographers Helen Johns Kirtland or Toni Frissell, who documented wars, often from the front lines.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History, Women's History
Library of Congress 2017 Summer Teacher Institutes – Apply Now!
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its week-long summer institutes for K-12 educators
Posted in: News and Events
An Ode to Autumn by a Writer in the Spring of Her Career
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Helen Keller had been eagerly writing since she had first gained the ability to do so several years before. Although an illness in her infancy had left her unable to see or hear, an inventive teacher, Annie Sullivan, introduced her to language, and soon she was reading and writing using braille and the assistance of interpreters.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Poetry and Literature, Women's History