A New Years Greeting from Puck Magazine
Posted by: Danna Bell
May your 2014 be full of opportunities to incorporate primary sources into classroom activities.
Posted in: Holidays
Category: Holidays
Holiday Celebrations and Primary Sources
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Snow Queen is here to remind you how the winter holidays were celebrated in the past.
Posted in: Holidays
Broadening Student Understanding of Wartime Experience through Original Works of Art and Personal Accounts
Posted by: Danna Bell
In the October 2013 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article anticipated Veterans’ Day and suggested strategies for broadening student understanding of wartime experience through original works of art and personal accounts.
Posted in: Holidays, Teaching Strategies, Veterans and Military History
Blog Roundup: Primary Sources and the Thanksgiving Holiday
Posted by: Danna Bell
Are you looking for ways to use primary sources in lessons about Thanksgiving? The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources blog has some entries that can help:
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Blog Round-Up: Primary Source Highlights for Veterans Day
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
The Teaching with the Library of Congress blog offers many entry points to primary sources from the Library of Congress to help your students study and honor the contributions of veterans.
Posted in: Holidays, Veterans and Military History
Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? Grave Insights into Customs and Cultures
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
For aficionados of history, graveyards are not creepy settings for Halloween movies, but an opportunity to study human customs and cultural norms of the past and present. The way graves are adorned and the epitaphs they bear can give us information about one life, but can also encourage us to wonder about the people they commemorate and their cultures.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Holidays
Our Favorite Posts: Beyond the Blarney
Posted by: Danna Bell
I hope that this blog post prompted readers to consider how recently-created primary sources reflect our current biases and prejudices.
Posted in: Holidays, Lesson Ideas
Favorites for the Fourth from the Library’s Primary Sources
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
But if this time of year brings the nation's founding documents to mind, you might want to revisit our past posts exploring the Declaration of Independence.
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Remembering Our Honored Dead: Memorial Day Traditions
Posted by: Danna Bell
You may know that Memorial Day was first called Decoration Day, but did you know that originally it honored only those who died in the Civil War? Primary sources from the Library of Congress can help students explore some of the ways people have commemorated Memorial Day in the past.
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