The Library of Congress publishes more than 20 blogs, written by subject matter experts from around the Library and covering a variety of different topics. Here are a few recent posts that might be of interest to educators:
- Read What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: March 2025 to check out recent additions to the online collections or browse past updates. Bonus: What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: 2024 Wrap-Up! explores highlights from last year.
- Augustus Koch’s Views From Above features panoramic maps and related items from the Library’s collections.
Detail from Panoramic view of the west bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri & Kansas showing stock yards, packing & wholesale houses. - Take a “Fast Car” to the 2025 National Recording Registry. Each year since 2002, the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) and members of the public have nominated recordings to the National Recording Registry. Learn about the 25 latest additions.
- Help Us Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival! Leading up to the 2025 National Book Festival, the team working to organize it will feature videos from each year of the Festival.
- The Library recently opened a new exhibition: George Washington and King George III — Exhibit Showcases Common Ties. Plan a visit or browse online.
- In honor of National Pencil Day, Profiling Portraits: Pencil In Hand explores portraits where the subject holds a pencil that is connected to their identity as writer, journalist, or artist.
[Woman posed in studio with head propped on hand, holding pencil - Chronicling America has a new look and the staff who maintain it offer Tips for Searching in Chronicling America.
- The Veterans History Project highlights ingenuity and the stories that can be gleaned from objects in The Parachute Dresses of WW II.
Library blogs get updated several times a week, so let us know what new favorite post you discover the next time you browse the blogs page. You can also subscribe to Teaching with the Library or other blogs from the Library of Congress!