Using Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection to Learn More about...
This is a guest post by Amira Dehmani, a student at Stanford University who worked with the Library’s education team as a 2022 Liljenquist Family Fellow. Paloma Ronis von Helms, another 2022...
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The Cherokee Nation and the Civil War
This is a guest post by Amira Dehmani, a student at Stanford University who worked with the Library’s education team as a 2022 Liljenquist Family Fellow. John Ross, also known as Guwisguwi, Principal...
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African Americans and the Formation of National Parks: The Story of Charles...
This blog post is by Amira Abdul-Hafiz Walker, an intern in the Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) Internship Program at the Library of Congress. Broaden students’ understanding of history...
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Teaching Scientific Literacy: The Case of Medicinal Teas
This post is coauthored by Josh Levy, historian of science and technology, and Jackie Katz, 2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow. It is one in a series focused on teaching scientific...
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Reflections from the Library: Interesting Finds to Deepen Analysis
This is the third in a series of posts by Caneisha Mills, the 2022-23 Library of Congress Teacher in Residence. We thank her for her hard work during this school year. This year at the Library of...
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“Unleashing the Power of Local History: Inspiring Student Engagement with...
This post is by Karla Berrios, a 2023 Library of Congress Junior Fellow. As a Library of Congress Junior Fellow, I created learning activities highlighting items from the Library’s digitized...
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Tracing General Sherman’s March to the Sea
We thank Meagan Snow and the Worlds Revealed blog team for allowing us to repost this. We hope it provides you with ideas on how you can incorporate a variety of primary sources in one lesson. In the...
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Primary Sources, Transcriptions, and Douglass Day Celebrations
Our thanks to educator Denise Burgher for this guest post focusing on Douglass Day and the ways in which teachers can use transcriptions to help engage students with primary sources. You can learn more...
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Reconstruction: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of...
In the wake of the American Civil War, the United States faced the enormous responsibility of rebuilding a fragile union of states. What’s more, while the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolished...
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Politics by Torchlight: Wide-Awake Clubs in 19th-Century Politics
They marched through the streets of American cities and towns in 1860: men in uniform, sporting military caps and black capes, arrayed in orderly formations and led by officers, their torches and...
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