Five Questions with Melanie Zeck, Reference Librarian, American Folklife Center
Posted by: Danna Bell
Meet Melanie Zeck, a reference librarian in the American Folklife Center.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Archive: August 2021 (6 Posts)
Take a Close Look at the National Book Festival Poster Gallery!
Posted by: Danna Bell
Get engaged with the National Book Festival by encourage your students to use the 30 second look to analyze posters from the past book festivals.
Posted in: Teaching Tools
Free Pre-National Book Festival Webinar for Educators
Posted by: Danna Bell
Join us on August 25th for a webinar to help teachers learn ways to use National Book Festival resources with their students.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature
Devil in the Details: Examining Visual Material from the Civil War
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore how Nina Silvia Iskandarsjach, the Summer 2021 Liljenquist Fellow for the Library of Congress learned more about some photographs in the collection by focusing on the the details in the images.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Teaching Mathematics Using Primary Sources: Analyzing Population Pyramids
Posted by: Danna Bell
Explore population trends using population pyramids and apply strategies for using them in the classroom.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Teaching about Women’s Involvement in the History of Computer Science
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
This post by Sam Correia, a 2021 Library of Congress Junior Fellow explore the role of women in the history of modern day computers and computer programming.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Women's History