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Posted by: Danna Bell
Wonder how rumors get started and how they are spread? The World War II Rumor collection explores that topic. Learn more from a post provide by the American Folklife Center.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore strategies to address difficult topics by applying information literacy approaches to historical primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
The Red Cross posters of nurses from WWI are complex images rife with gendered implications and imagery. These images contrast not only against the social movement of feminism happening at the time, but also each other.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
Use resources from the Rosa Parks papers to gain personal insights into the lives of this ordinary individual who took extraordinary action and find connections between students’ contemporary experiences and this historic individual.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Posted by: Danna Bell
Freedom – the latest Story Map from the Library of Congress illustrates the mid-to-late twentieth-century movements led by African Americans to achieve justice and equality in all walks of life.
Posted in: African American History, Contemporary United States (1945-present)
Posted by: Danna Bell
November is hailed as National Aviation History Month to celebrate America’s contributions to - and future endeavors in - aviation. To celebrate the month, let’s explore two pioneers of flight: The Wright Brothers.
Posted in: Development of the Industrial United States (1877-1914), Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Since the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog launched in 2011, we’ve published more than 900 posts covering a wide range of topics and suggesting various strategies for deepening student engagement and learning. This is the first of a series of posts revisiting some of our favorite strategies; we invite you to read along …
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Primary sources related to Cherokee removal offer a rich and complex story detailing how the systems of federalism and separation of powers failed to protect Cherokee treaty rights.
Posted in: Geography and Maps, Government and Law, Native American History
Posted by: Danna Bell
One image from the exhibit "Shall Not Be Denied: Women's Fight for the Vote" in particular struck me both for what it shows and for what it does not make evident.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Women's History