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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)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore the path the Constitution followed to ratification in North Carolina and Rhode Island with articles from the Gazette of the United States.
Posted in: Constitution, Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)
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
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Join Library of Congress education specialists every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm ET for free online Office Hours for education. Each session will include a twenty-minute topical presentation with plenty of time for questions and answers with Library experts. Join us at https://locgov.webex.com/meet/kmcg. This week, we’ll be discussing: April 7: Local History Resources Help students …
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
How do you observe Constitution Day?
Posted in: Constitution
Posted by: Danna Bell
Fewer know about another way that African Americans could access the news of the day in the 1940s and 1950s; the All-American News, newsreels similar to the Movietone newsreels that were shown before feature films, were produced for African American audiences.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Reading and analyzing primary sources can help students understand how people thought about the brain and treated mental illnesses in the early and mid-twentieth century.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
Chronicling America has fourteen Native American newspapers within its collections. These papers cover most of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
Posted in: Native American History
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Rob Williams first used the Library’s digital newspaper collections more than a decade ago as a high-school teacher of U.S. history in Powhatan County, Virginia, near Richmond. Today, he’s a recording artist—he released his third album, “An Hour Before Daylight,” in October. But he still draws inspiration from the same online resources that captivated his history students.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Interviews with Experts