Selected American Memory Collections: [also see Collection Connections for each]
After the Day of Infamy: "Man‐on‐the‐Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, presents interviews of people from throughout the United States on their feelings after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. These tapes also include opinions on other events of the day including racial discrimination, labor disputes and the decision to go to war.
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project, based on a similar project created after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, documents eyewitness accounts, expressions of grief and other commentary on the events of September 11, 2001. Included in this presentation are photographs, drawings, audio and video interviews and written narratives.
Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861‐1865 documents life in Civil War era Washington, D.C. as seen through the eyes of Horatio Taft. As Taft's sons were close friends of Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, information about Lincoln and his family is included in Taft's diaries. Also included are descriptions of Lincoln's assassination as described by Taft's son, one of the attending physicians at Ford's Theater, and several of Taft's friends.
Teacher Resources:
Primary Source Set
Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project
Lesson Plans:
Photojournalism: A Record of War (Grades 5-8) Students explore how and why war has been photographed and also see the bias within the recording/reporting of war.
What are We Fighting for Over There? (Grades 10-12) Students create World War I era newspapers with different perspectives on American involvement in the war.
What Do You See? (Grades 5-12) Students analyze Civil War photographs, and develop links between the Civil War and American industrialization.
Other Resources:
Exhibition: Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress Provides representative items from virtually every section of the Library of Congress, including prints, photographs, drawings, poems, eyewitness accounts and personal reactions, headlines, books, magazines, songs, maps, videotapes and films.
The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. . In September 2003, the Library of Congress accepted the Archive, which contains more than 150,000 digital items, into its collections. Provides an opportunity to contribute stories, upload images, documents, and other digital files to the Archive.
Veteran’s History Project special features:
Disabled Veterans ‐ the Unhealed Wounds: http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex‐war‐disabledvets.html
The Global War on Terror: http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex‐war‐waronterror.html
Voices of War: http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/voicesofwar/
Sweethearts, Family Ties & Buddies: http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex‐war‐home‐release2.html
