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Helping Students Read Between the Lines: Identifying Bias and Attitude in Newspapers for the Presidential Election of 1912

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

In the November/December 2015 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focused on analyzing newspapers from the presidential election of 1912, an unusual contest at an unusual time.

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Five Questions with Francisco Macías, Senior Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress

Posted by: Danna Bell

I love the Library's collections of prints and photographs. I also love the "Selected Library of Congress Sources for Texas!" However, I would like to share some analog primary sources that we have digitally preserved: the bilingual gazettes (1863), Spanish and French, of the Second Mexican Empire.