What can be learned about the artist's perceptions of a president from the way the caricature or cartoon is drawn? What can be learned from it about the wider community's opinions?
“Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort,” explores the myriad ways in which African Americans who participated in the Civil War were portrayed visually.
Ms. Woodson offered many thoughtful responses during the Q&A session, but her advice about feedback and whether student writers should submit their work to friends for critique intrigued us.
Our previous post on a recent Mars-related program in the Young Readers Center of the Library of Congress described how students studied historical and current primary sources to prepare them to discuss whether they'd want to visit and possibly to live on Mars.
Ponder this: would you want to go to Mars? Would you want to live on Mars? What might you do there? Who would you want to go with you? We posed these questions to student visitors during a program called “Life and Community on Mars” held in the Library of Congress Young Readers Center.