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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Learn how newspapers encouraged voter participation in elections.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Government and Law, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
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.
Posted in: Government and Law, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Lesson Ideas, News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Explore two new interactives that support student inquiry into Congress and civic participation.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
As the school year gets underway, we'd like to welcome old friends and new to another year of the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog!
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
However, the now-ubiquitous Miranda warning only came into being fifty years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled that the rights of a criminal suspect, Ernesto Miranda, had been violated because he had not been informed of his Constitutional protections against self-incrimination.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Government and Law
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Pore over the first periodic table of elements. Highlight interesting entries in Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten record of temperatures of Monticello. Hear the stories of people struggling to survive the Great Depression. The Library of Congress is once again providing students everywhere with a chance to touch, draw on, and explore treasures from its vast collections with the release of its three newest free interactive ebooks for tablets.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
These Student Discovery Sets gather unique documents and artifacts related to landmark moments in the nation's history and, through interactive tools, let students zoom in on, illustrate, and makes notes about what they discover. The newest sets cover Political Cartoons and Public Debates, Japanese American Internment, and Women's Suffrage.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Walk with civil rights activists as they march against racial segregation. Pick out the details of a nineteenth-century factory. Zoom in on the faces of children at play one hundred years ago. As teachers begin planning for the next school year, the Library of Congress invites students everywhere to touch, draw on, and explore some of its most valuable treasures--all via its three newest free interactive ebooks for tablets.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The Library of Congress has been preparing for months for a visit by a distinguished ancestor--an ancestor of the U.S. Constitution, that is.
Posted in: Government and Law, News and Events, World History