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Posted by: Danna Bell
Chronicling America has fourteen Native American newspapers within its collections. These papers cover most of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
In the October 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focuses on a film featured in the Library's new National Screening Room,
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Lesson Ideas
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