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Posted by: Danna Bell
How can mathematical reasoning be used to offer a fresh historical analysis on a topic? Explore charts from the Statistical Atlas from 1890 for some suggestions.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
How can primary sources help students explore the multiple perspectives of an event? This webinar will provide teaching ideas to support your students.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
Hope you will join us for our professional development activities for the week of July 20th including using the Library's music collections and helping students explore multiple perspectives when analyzing primary sources.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
On Easter Sunday 1939, one of America’s greatest voices sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. She donned a fur coat against the fifty-degree bluster to perform outdoors. Despite the direct intervention of the First Lady, performance venues across Washington, D.C., had refused to open their stage doors to the world renowned African American contralto, Marian Anderson.
Posted in: African American History, Fine and Performing Arts
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How do we view our planet Earth? What do elementary or middle school students understand about what it was like for people who saw Earth for the first time from Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to the moon?
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
In the October 2017 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our & "Sources and Strategies" article features two manuscript documents from individuals with very different responses to the armistice that ended the major fighting of World War I.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Identifying and reflecting on multiple perspectives can help students develop a more rounded, nuanced understanding of history.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
Following the Allied victory in World War I, the United States entered a period of rapid change, experiencing changes both in its stature as a global leader and changes from social experiments, including universal women’s suffrage and the prohibition of alcohol. One widely discussed topic of this time was “Americanism,” the idea that certain unique qualities, traditions, and ideals set apart the United States.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), World History
Posted by: Anne Savage
On Thursday, March 19 at 4 PM ET, Teaching Tolerance and the Library of Congress will co-facilitate the third in a series of monthly webinars on teaching and learning about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present), News and Events