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Online Office Hours for April 7 and 9: Local History Resources and Chronicling America

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Join Library of Congress education specialists every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm ET for free online Office Hours for education. Each session will include a twenty-minute topical presentation with plenty of time for questions and answers with Library experts. Join us at https://locgov.webex.com/meet/kmcg. This week, we’ll be discussing: April 7: Local History Resources Help students …

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Join Us Tues & Thurs 2ET! Online Office Hours for Education from the Library of Congress

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

The Library of Congress is open to all for online office hours on education resources and learning ideas using Library collections. For the next month, join us every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 ET at https://locgov.webex.com/meet/kmcg. Each session will include a 20 minute presentation with plenty of time for questions and answers with Library education …

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Celebrate Children’s Book Week with Us! Special Livestreamed Event 10am April 29th

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

To kick off our celebration of Children’s Book Week (April 29-May 3), we invite you to tune into our live stream on Monday, April 29th, beginning at 10 am EDT. We will be livestreaming a special program from the Young Readers Center in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. Local authors who are members of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC, will be reading twenty special children’s books from the Library’s collections.

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Encouraging Student Examination of Persuasive Strategies Used in an Anti-Lynching Report

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

In the November-December 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focuses on one document used in the battle against mob violence against African Americans: a 1921 report from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in support of a bill to make lynching a federal crime.