In the September 2025 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article features Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech to both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court on December 8, 1941. The article asks: How did the U.S. Constitution, signed on September 17, 1787, influence the nation’s reaction to an event more than 150 years later?
This blog offers free primary sources and teaching strategies to help students reflect on how some WWI-era music sought to invoke a singular American identity.
This is the first in a series of posts by Ralph Pantozzi, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Library of Congress. Read about strategies for using photographs to prompt questions that can be explored with data.
