LC for Teachers

Help your students understand Asian Pacific Heritage through the resources of the Asian Pacific Americans Community Center. Don't miss the Primary Source Set on Japanese American Internment during WW II.

This new Web site explores the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the best-known hymns in America, through items from the earliest printing of the song to various performances of it on sound recordings. Don't miss the illustrated timeline, the essays on the history of *Amazing Grace,* a discography, and a selected bibliography.

Help your students make personal connections with history by considering the lives of a young Union soldier and his family during the Civil War. Through letters and other documents, the collection describes the drudgery of life in military camps, details of troop movements, experiences of a prisoner of war, a soldier's view of politics, and feelings of homesickness and familial love.

Encourage your students to view history from different perspectives using the suggested teaching strategies in this collection connection. This bilingual collection, illuminating the role France played in exploration and settlement, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution. will be useful to both World and American History teachers.

Read the news BEFORE it became history in this rich resource. View newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 from pilot states and find information about other newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.
A partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities

Don't miss this collection of books, maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts from the time of the indigenous people of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean through the period of European contact, exploration, and settlement. The “page turner” presentation provides a wonderful window to the past.

Help your students gain a new perspective by seeing war through the eyes of women who were there. Read the first-hand accounts of women who participated in the war effort - from nurses to code-breakers to welders, flight surgeons and officers.

The Library has published a new resource page featuring women's collections - from suffragist profiles to veterans' oral histories, stories on major historical figures, lesson plans for use in your classroom, collection guides and online exhibitions.

Do you know the source of the expression, "œThe wearing of the green..."? Visit Today in History for March 17 to learn about the St. Patrick's Day tradition and other evidence of the influence of the Irish in America.

Looking for ideas on how to incorporate manuscript materials into classroom activities? There is a new page for teachers on the Manuscript Division website. The page includes links to resources on the Teacher’s Page, suggestions on where to look for manuscript collections on the Library’s website, and a highlighted document from the Library’s manuscript collections. Currently featured are George Washington’s School Copy Books.