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Posted by: Danna Bell
Guest author Kitty Felde provides tips on effectively searching Chronicling America.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
Lee Ann Potter summarizes a program featuring several of the Library's Teaching with Primary Sources partners and how they try to find the "perfect primary source combination" for their programs and how these sources can lead to transformative opportunities.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the importance of canals in U.S. transportation history.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Learn about Barbara Pope and her fight to insure that African American passengers on interstate trains did not have to move to Jim Crow cars.
Posted in: African American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore how a political cartoon can help students learn more about the impact of aviation at the start of the 20th century.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn more about Tape vs Hurley one of the first school desegregation cases ever decided in a court of law.
Posted in: Asian American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Government and Law
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore the mathematical thinking used in Alexander Graham Bell's Experimental notebooks and learn ways you can use them to support your students growth in mathematics.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
See how an inscription in a book led our Einstein Fellow on a research odyssey using primary sources to learn about the owner of the book and the connect to the high school where he teaches.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore the charts W.E.B. DuBois created for the Paris Exposition and compare them to those created from 1870's census information. What do they tell us about the African American community during this time?
Posted in: African American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math