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Just One Day: Using a Newspaper Front Page as a Window to Inquiry and Research

June 10, 2025

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

Assign students a newspaper page from a random date to encourage questioning and research.

Posted in: Lesson Ideas

Photograph shows a teacher and students analyzing primary source documents.

Apply Now! Summer 2026 Professional Development at the Library of Congress

December 2, 2025

Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf

The blog announces the launch of the 2026 Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute application form and invites educators to apply to the program.

Posted in: News and Events

A black and white poster showing results of a community survey about what resources and services resident prefer.

Community: People and Places – A New Primary Source Set for Educators

September 23, 2025

Posted by: Colleen Smith

A new primary source set from the Library of Congress features 18 items that help students identify, connect to, and expand on aspects of what makes communities function and thrive.

Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Young Learners

Illustration shows a fat businessman reclining on a large coin, basking in the bright light of "Special Privilege" while dreaming of castles in the air; on the other side of the coin is factory life in dark and polluted Pittsburgh, and where factory workers struggle to flip the coin blocking the light from their city and their lives.

The Price of Pollution: Helping Students Visualize Relationships Between Economic Concepts and Environmental Issues with a 1909 Political Cartoon

May 6, 2025

Posted by: Colleen Smith

In the March/April 2025 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article highlighted a political cartoon that appeared in the September 22, 1909, issue of Puck Magazine. The image, “Lights and Shadows”, contains a wealth of opportunities for students to explore connections between the environment, politics, economics, and public health.

Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies