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Posted by: Danna Bell
Examining historical statistical atlases is a useful way for students to practice geographic thinking and data literacy skills while gaining insights into American history.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Government and Law
Posted by: Danna Bell
Primary sources related to Cherokee removal offer a rich and complex story detailing how the systems of federalism and separation of powers failed to protect Cherokee treaty rights.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Government and Law, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Join us at the Library of Congress on October 19th from 9am-3pm for a special one-day professional development event on Women's Suffrage, open to K-12 educators of all disciplines interested in incorporating primary sources into their classroom instruction.
Posted in: News and Events, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Where can you look if you think you’ve run out of information about a person or place? How can we encourage students to be persistent researching in the face of a “dead end”? And how do we equip students with the knowledge of databases and archives, so that when they run into a historical dead end, they know where to keep looking?
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
A farewell from Einstein Fellow Kellie Taylor with suggestions for locating resources for science, technology and engineering teachers.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Arlene Balkansky loves working with the full range of people visiting Newspaper and Current Periodical reading room, whether on-site or remotely: the teenager working on a National History Day project, the family interested in comic books, the university student, the teacher participating in the Library’s Summer Teacher Institute, the genealogist, the professor, the filmmaker, the author, and more.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional program has just awarded a $20,000 grant to the Academy of American Poets to support the addition of resources from the Library's collections to the Academy's Teach This Poem series for the 2019-2020 school year.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature