2022 | Teaching with the Library

First six image of the Civil Rights Movement Primary Source Set

The Civil Rights Movement: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers

November 30, 2022

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Explore our new primary source set on the Civil Rights Movement.

Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)

“Vote!” Election Day Pages in Historic Newspapers

November 3, 2022

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Learn how newspapers encouraged voter participation in elections.

Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Government and Law, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)

Candy Day: A Phantom Holiday?

October 27, 2022

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

During a season of spectres, shapeshifters, and apparitions that vanish in the night, we’d like to take a look at an October holiday that seems to have shimmered into existence a century or so ago but now can scarcely be found. Halloween itself has, of course, changed shape over the years, as children–and adults!–have celebrated …

Posted in: Holidays

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

Reporting the Revolution: Teaching the Black Freedom Struggle through Historic Newspapers

September 6, 2022

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Explore how to use Chronicling America to study the Black American fight for freedom and the complicated narrative the documents this part of United States history.

Posted in: African American History, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)