Highlights from the Library’s Blogs
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore some of the Library's other blogs and the resources available for classroom use.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
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Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore some of the Library's other blogs and the resources available for classroom use.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore topical guides for Chronicling America, the historic American newspaper database.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Staff from the Library of Congress will be in booth 504 at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) in Columbus, Ohio, November 17-19. We’d love to hear about your work and give you a personalized tour of the Library’s primary source collections, teaching materials, and professional development resources. But whether or …
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Take a look at primary sources from your state and see how you can use them to engage your students.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How can exploring what happened on a unique date such as 2/22/1922 help build student research skills? Lee Ann Potter has some ideas.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
On Tuesday, September 23, at 7 PM ET, education experts from the Library will offer a webinar that will engage participants in a model photograph analysis activity, facilitate a discussion about the power of teaching with visual images, and demonstrate how to find visual images from the Library of Congress. Throughout the year, the Library will be hosting educator webinars every other Tuesday at 7:00 ET focusing on a variety of instructional strategies for using primary sources in instruction. The 2014 schedule and information about joining the webinar is now available from loc.gov/teachers.
Posted in: News and Events, Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Do you have students who love winter sports? The upcoming winter Olympics will provide lots of opportunities to watch intense competition and celebrate the glorious triumphs of the athletes. Why not engage students’ energy and interest with Library of Congress primary source items related to both historical winter Olympic teams and winter sports?
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Think of the last video you watched that made you laugh. Does the video capture someone taking a fall, misspeaking or getting caught doing something they shouldn't?
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights