Entering 2021 With Primary Sources
Posted by: Danna Bell
Celebrating the start of a new year with a cartoon from Puck Magazine.
Posted in: Holidays
Archive: December 2020 (11 Posts)
Wishes for a Safe Holiday
Posted by: Danna Bell
Join the Birds for Human Safety in celebrating a safe and festive holiday season.
Posted in: Government and Law, Holidays
Teacher Resources for Primary Educators: Reflections of an Intern and Teacher
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Meet Delaney Ford, an intern in the Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office at the Library of Congress and her work to make our teacher resources more accessible to teachers with younger students.
Posted in: Young Learners
The Boccaccio Project: Musical Storytelling in Response to a Global Pandemic
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Learn about the Library of Congress Boccaccio Project and how the project invites students, especially those interested in performing and writing music, to engage in all of the processes inherent to musical artistry: creating, performing, responding, and connecting in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts
A World War and a Global Pandemic: How Did Students Make a Difference?
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Share images of children living through the Influenza pandemic of 1918 and use them to spur analysis and comparison with the events of 2020.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Five Questions with Julie Stoner, Reference Librarian, Geography and Map Division
Posted by: Danna Bell
Meet Julie Stoner, a reference librarian in the Geography and Maps Division.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Interviews with Experts
Teaching Mathematics Using Primary Sources: Finding the Art in Charts from W.E.B. DuBois and Others
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore the charts W.E.B. DuBois created for the Paris Exposition and compare them to those created from 1870's census information. What do they tell us about the African American community during this time?
Posted in: African American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Jason Reynolds: Grab The Mic, December Edition
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Jason Reynolds explores the benefits of rest.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature
That’s Just Hysterical: The Lindgren Brothers’ Tourist Maps
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore the Lindgren Brothers’ maps and consider how maps are more than a representation of geographical facts.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)