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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Staff from the Library of Congress will be in booth 151 at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) in Houston on November 16-18, and we'd love to chat with you and give you a personalized tour of the Library's primary source collections, teaching materials, and professional development resources.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Prepare students to analyze the four versions highlighted here by asking them to recall personal experiences hearing Auld Lang Syne: Who performed, and where? How did the audience respond? What was the purpose of the performance?
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Holidays
Posted by: Danna Bell
Reading and analyzing primary sources can help students understand how people thought about the brain and treated mental illnesses in the early and mid-twentieth century.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
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: Stephen Wesson
Explore two new interactives that support student inquiry into Congress and civic participation.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Primary sources such as the letters and diaries of Civil War Nurse Mary Ann Bickerdyke offer rich insights into the lives of real people. The fragmented, personal nature of these sources requires careful reading in context and comparison across multiple accounts to glean information and construct understanding.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Veterans and Military History, Women's History