Make Local Connections with Primary Sources from Your State
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
Category: Primary Source Highlights
Reading is for Everyone
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore some of the images that depict reading in this blog post from Jan Grenci of the Prints and Photographs Division.
Posted in: Poetry and Literature, Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools, Young Learners
What Happened Last Twosday? Exploring 2-22-22 in Primary Sources
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
Using Primary Sources to Explore Historic Events: Library of Congress Story Maps
Posted by: Danna Bell
What is a story map? Learn how staff from the Library of Congress are using them to help connect the Library's collection to provide information about events in a unique way.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools
Spreading the Word for a Cause: Exploring Broadsides, Flyers, and Posters from the Library’s Collections
Posted by: Danna Bell
See how broadsides and other paper publicity sources were used to engage people and encourage them to support a cause such as labor rights.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Primary Source Highlights
Teaching with Monuments and Memorials: Defining Monuments
Posted by: Danna Bell
What is a monument and how do we help students understand what they are and why they are important? Intern Bryn Walker provides some answers and teaching suggestions.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Primary Source Highlights
Additions to Chronicling America Highlight the Revolutionary War and More!
Posted by: Danna Bell
Chronicling America has added over1.5 million pages of content. Learn more about the new resources available including resources on life during the Revolutionary War.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)
Visual and Virtual Opportunities – Photograph Analysis Webinars for Teachers
Posted by: Danna Bell
Join us for our series with the Prints and Photographs Division, Double Take. Learn more about analyzing and using photographs in your classroom.
Posted in: News and Events, Primary Source Highlights
Free Puzzles through Chronicling America: Maze Edition
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn about the puzzles that can be found in the newspapers from Chronicling America.
Posted in: Culture and Folklife, Lesson Ideas, Primary Source Highlights, Young Learners