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Posted by: Danna Bell
Juliana Mestre, the Spring 2019 Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program Intern in the Library of Congress Young Readers Center talks about her experience and how it shaped her career plans.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
What can your students discover about W.E.B. DuBois and the Paris exposition
Posted in: African American History, Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Students can now access digital editions of the three newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass, the North Star, Frederick Douglass’ Paper and the New National Era.
Posted in: African American History, News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
A farewell from Einstein Fellow Kellie Taylor with suggestions for locating resources for science, technology and engineering teachers.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
What was the impact of the 19th amendment on the 1920 presidential election?
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Arlene Balkansky loves working with the full range of people visiting Newspaper and Current Periodical reading room, whether on-site or remotely: the teenager working on a National History Day project, the family interested in comic books, the university student, the teacher participating in the Library’s Summer Teacher Institute, the genealogist, the professor, the filmmaker, the author, and more.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
One hundred years ago, on January 25, 1919, the delegates to the Paris Peace Conference approved a proposal to create the League of Nations. Nearly a year later, on January 16, 1920, the League held its first meeting with its stated principal mission of maintaining world peace.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Tools, World History
Posted by: Danna Bell
We're excited to return to Chicago for the National Council for the Social Studies conference, November 30 - December 1, 2018. We hope to meet you at one of our events during the conference.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Danna Bell
On a day-to-day basis, I'm reviewing digitized newspaper pages from across the United States for adherence to technical requirements. The newspaper pages, digitized as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a joint project of the Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and state cultural heritage institutions, are made available online through Chronicling America.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Lesson Ideas