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Posted by: Danna Bell
Football tends to be on students’ minds this time of year. What can they discover about football and American history through Library of Congress primary sources? An entertaining fictional film available on the Library's National Screening Room can lead students to discover a football legend from the early twentieth century.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Native American History
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The Library's Learning and Innovation Office is gathering information to help inform our plans for the future.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
One hundred years ago, on January 25, 1919, the delegates to the Paris Peace Conference approved a proposal to create the League of Nations. Nearly a year later, on January 16, 1920, the League held its first meeting with its stated principal mission of maintaining world peace.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Tools, World History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
R. Nathaniel Dett was one of the earliest composers to arrange African-American folk melodies in new, creative settings.
Posted in: African American History, Fine and Performing Arts
Posted by: Danna Bell
2018 was a banner year for additions to the Library's online resources. Here is a list of a few new resources you may want to explore or share with your students.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Government and Law, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
As you start back to school in the new year, we wanted to highlight a few outstanding posts from other Library of Congress blogs that you may have missed. Hopefully they'll spur some ideas for classroom activities featuring the Library’s collections.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Native American History, Poetry and Literature, Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
New Year’s Day 2019 was a landmark for American copyright law. For the first time in twenty years, published works of expression—including books, music, and films—started moving out of copyright protection and into the public domain.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How do we view our planet Earth? What do elementary or middle school students understand about what it was like for people who saw Earth for the first time from Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to the moon?
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Apply to participate in a Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute.
Posted in: News and Events