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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Beginning with a pilot program in 2008, the K-12 Web Archiving Program has engaged hundreds of middle and high school students from schools around the United States in selecting, describing, and preserving Web content. Through September 17, the program is accepting applications for new and returning partners from middle and high schools.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
I am the Director of the Veterans History Project, part of the American Folklife Center, at the Library of Congress. VHP's mission is to gather the oral histories of veterans and ensure they are accessible so current researchers and future generations understand what they saw, did and felt during their selfless service to our nation.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
As a reference librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room my basic functions are to answer questions about and provide access to the Library's collection of serials (newspapers and periodicals) and government documents.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
Though away from home, the members of the Colony celebrated Independence Day. The picture below shows the Colony's pageant at the start of the 20th century.
Posted in: Holidays, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
In the May/June 2017 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article features a letter that Walt Whitman wrote to his mother on December 29, 1862. Whitman wrote the letter to let his mother know that he had found his brother George alive and healing from an injury sustained during the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Danna Bell
As my job title indicates, I both edit the work of authors who publish works under the Library’s aegis and write books and other materials. My most recent writing project is America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History, published on May 30, 2017, by Bloomsbury Press, in cooperation with the Library.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
I would invite all teachers to introduce their students to the Library's Web site with creative assignments. These assignments may encourage the exploration of the stories of generations past with a search through the online resources on LC's site.
Posted in: African American History, Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the origins of Father’s Day.
Posted in: Government and Law, Holidays
Posted by: Danna Bell
I left New Jersey with good wishes, lots of hugs, and a few tears. When I got to Washington, DC, I was welcomed by the Educational Outreach staff of the Library of Congress with a mutual eagerness to collaborate and a personal hope that my contributions could affect educators.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, News and Events, Young Learners