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Archive: April 2018 (4 Posts)

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Encouraging Citizens to “Wake Up and Read” – Celebrating National Library Week and School Library Month with Primary Sources

Posted by: Danna Bell

As I read the information provided on the history of National Library Week and School Library Month I began to think about the various posters in the Library of Congress online collections that encouraged people to visit libraries or to read.

Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Poetry and Literature

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Native Americans in the First World War and the Fight for Citizenship

Posted by: Danna Bell

While searching through our collections for maps to use for display in the exhibition Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I, I found one among our uncatalogued holdings that caught my attention. As the title states, it is a map presenting the role of North American Indians in the World War.

Posted in: Geography and Maps, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Native American History, Veterans and Military History

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Mathematics and Primary Sources: Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part II – the Women Codebreakers of WWII

Posted by: Danna Bell

Sending and cracking secret messages dates back to the foundation and exploration of the country. But did you know that much of the cryptographic work that helped the United States win World War II was accomplished by female codebreakers?

Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Science Technology and Math, Veterans and Military History, Women's History