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Posted by: Danna Bell
Did you know that it's been 200 years since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote the classic horror novel Frankenstein? Learn how the Library of Congress will celebrate this notable anniversary.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
Around Halloween, children are often introduced to the startling folk song “Skin and Bones.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Fine and Performing Arts, Holidays
Posted by: Danna Bell
Are your students beginning their research for the National History Day contest? Many of the millions of Library of Congress digitized primary sources highlight events that led to triumph or tragedy.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Library recently completed digitizing a portion of Theodore Roosevelt's papers, considered to be the largest collection of original Roosevelt documents in the world.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Government and Law
Posted by: Danna Bell
My job at the Young Readers Center allows me to be curious, ask a lot of questions, and find new ways to help children and teens connect with the Library of Congress and deepen their love of reading and learning.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners
Posted by: Danna Bell
Reflecting on related primary sources can provide students with a fun way to employ mathematical thinking to understand the history of sports such as baseball up to the present day.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
I am a Reference Librarian in the Main Reading Room and the Women’s, Gender, and LGBTQ+ Studies Collection Specialist and Recommending Officer for the Library. In all aspects of my work, I facilitate access to Library collections and services
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Interviews with Experts, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
With the addition of the National Screening Room and other film resources to the Library of Congress online collections, students can now study political advertisements that were shown in movie theaters or on television.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Lesson Ideas
Posted by: Danna Bell
When thinking about ways to incorporate music in classroom activities for Hispanic Heritage month explore the corrido, "a type of socially relevant narrative ballad."
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Fine and Performing Arts, Hispanic American History