How Did Americans Observe the 100th Anniversary of the Signing of the Constitution?
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How do you observe Constitution Day?
Posted in: Constitution
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Primary Sources for Musical Learning: America’s Changemakers in Song: Celebrating Music In Our Schools Month with Library of Congress Primary Sources
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Throughout the nineteenth century, singing schools supported building music skills for community singing in church and home
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, News and Events
All-American News: Newsreels for African American Audiences
Posted by: Danna Bell
Fewer know about another way that African Americans could access the news of the day in the 1940s and 1950s; the All-American News, newsreels similar to the Movietone newsreels that were shown before feature films, were produced for African American audiences.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Primary Sources in Science Classrooms: Asking Science and Social Studies Questions about “Radium Girls”
Posted by: Danna Bell
Today, primary sources about radium can prompt students to ask questions that can drive inquiry in science and social studies classes.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Science Technology and Math
Not Farewell: The Exploration and Discovery Continues
Posted by: Danna Bell
A farewell from Einstein Fellow Kellie Taylor with suggestions for locating resources for science, technology and engineering teachers.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Students Investigate the 19th Amendment’s Influence on the 1920 Election
Posted by: Danna Bell
What was the impact of the 19th amendment on the 1920 presidential election?
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Teaching Rhetorical Analysis with Suffrage-themed Advertisements
Posted by: Danna Bell
How were advertisements used to support the suffrage movement?
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Five Questions with Arlene Balkansky, Reference Specialist, Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room
Posted by: Danna Bell
Arlene Balkansky loves working with the full range of people visiting Newspaper and Current Periodical reading room, whether on-site or remotely: the teenager working on a National History Day project, the family interested in comic books, the university student, the teacher participating in the Library’s Summer Teacher Institute, the genealogist, the professor, the filmmaker, the author, and more.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Veterans and Military History
And to Think That I Saw It in Union Square: Primary Sources Representing Public Space
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Union Square opened as a public park in 1839, and by the first decades of the twentieth century was an established destination for anyone who wanted to stroll under the trees, shop for flowers, or just sit and read a newspaper. But it was also the site of a variety of large and small public demonstrations and events.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)