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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Celebrate International Literacy Day on September 8 with the Library of Congress! This year's theme is "literacy in a digital world," and the Library has a variety of programs and resources to support and celebrate literacy.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
In the May/June 2017 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article features a letter that Walt Whitman wrote to his mother on December 29, 1862. Whitman wrote the letter to let his mother know that he had found his brother George alive and healing from an injury sustained during the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Poetry and Literature