November 2009
Topic Guides for Chronicling America
The staff working on Chronicling American has provided a list of topics guides to the newspapers included in Chronicling America. Each topic guide (e.g., Baseball's Modern World Series, Ellis Island, or the Russo-Japanese War) includes subject-specific terms (including name usage, historical language, unusual spellings, etc.) and dates that can be readily used to search this topic in Chronicling America, as well as a list of sample articles found in Chronicling America.
Join us at the American Association of School Librarians Conference, November 5-7
Are you coming to Charlotte, North Carolina for AASL? We will be in booth 161 in the exhibit hall. There will be in-booth presentations every half hour including sessions on our new Teachers Page, the World Digital Library, TPS-Direct, our new our new online professional development system, and teaching with maps. In addition to being in the exhibit hall, we will have conference sessions on our new professional development modules and using books as hooks to primary sources. Hope to see you in Charlotte!!!
Prepare for Veterans Day with Two New Primary Source Sets
Two new primary source sets from the Library of Congress can bring your students face to face with American war veterans. Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project and Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation let veterans tell their stories firsthand through interviews, diaries, photographs, and drawings. All these items were collected by the Veterans History Project, and they're accompanied by teacher guides and analysis tools that make them easy to use in the classroom.
You can find these primary source sets and a teacher's guide to analyzing oral histories at the following url's:
• The Veterans History Project
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Struggles for Participation
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Analyzing Oral Histories
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Events
October 5-7: Creating the US Teacher Institute
A cooperative endeavor between the Interpretive Programs Office and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, this institute invites educators from across the country to learn about America's founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—based on the Library’s primary and web based materials.
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