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Did you know that a poem is available for each weekday of the school year from the Library's Poetry 180 project? Now, these poems can be delivered right to your computer desktop through an RSS feed. English teachers and poetry lovers - sign up, today! http://www.loc.gov/rss/poetry/180.xml

Are you or your students visiting the Nation's Capital this summer? If so, this guide to Washington's history will provide background information to enrich your visit.

It's time for players and fans of all ages to enjoy one of America's favorite sports. Visit this Learning Page Community Center to find links to baseball related resources from all over the Library of Congress.

Are hurricanes, melting glaciers, rising ocean levels, eroding coastlines, crop damage, food shortages, absence of rainfall, shrinking aquifers, wildfires, and lowered water tables signs of worldwide global warming? If your students are grappling with understanding this topic, introduce them to this listing of vetted print and Internet resources from the Science Reference Section, Library of Congress.

This unique presentation uses U.S. Army situation maps to illustrate this famous WWII battle. Your students will enjoy the interactivity and the historical expertise share by Library of Congress curators.

Looking for images on subjects relating to American History? Pictorial American has collections of images documenting historic American events and themes. Users will find historical images documenting the states, Congress, images of explorers and exploration, industry, sports and much more.

Use this lesson to help your students learn what the World War II experience was like for Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.

Looking for resources to use for Asian/Pacific American Heritage month? Visit our web portal at http://www.loc.gov/topics/asianpacific/. Link to collections and exhibits with Asian themes. Learn more about the experiences of Asian American veterans through the Veterans History project. See lesson plans and other resources to help bring these collections to your students.

We will miss this prolific Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, historian and author. Listen to a portion of his talk in this webcast from the Library's 2002 National Book Festival.

This trailblazing lawmaker, the first African-American chairwoman of the House Committee on House Administration, was also the founder and executive director of the League of African-American Women and the founder of the Young Advocates, a political leadership-training program. Listen to her delivery of the 2007 African American History Month keynote address at the Library of Congress.

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.
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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.

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