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Loc: Editorial Cartoons by Ann Telnaes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exhibit at the Library of Congress tracing the career of Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes.
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Loc: Official Us Executive Branch Websites

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official US executive branch site. Provides links to every department of this government branch.
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Loc: Cartoon Cornucopia: J. Arthur Wood, Jr., Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress offers a digitized collection of caricature, cartoon, and animated art. The collection is searchable and short histories of cartoonists, types of cartoons, and animation are included.
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Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-part feature on African American history offers an in-depth look at the events of the 1960's civil rights movement. Discusses voting rights, laws, military segregation, freedom rides, sit-ins and the NAACP. Includes historic...
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Loc: Policies and Problems of the Confederation Government

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This teacher resource includes imagesand historical documents, alllowing readers to trace the creation of our government from the Continental Congress through the Articles of Confederation. An overview helps to clarify the policies and...
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Loc: American Cartoon Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
A gateway to a collection of more than 500 prints, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, which encompasses several forms of political editorializing. A wonderfully curated collection, with images, a summary of the historical...
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Loc: Teachers: Lessons: Wall of Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
Read personal dreams for America's future, and share one of your own. Hundreds of dreams from across the country and around the world, all in hope for a better tomorrow.
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Loc: u.s. Presidents, First Ladies, Vice Presidents: Selected Images

For Students 9th - 10th
This chronological archive presents photographs of American presidents. Also includes images of first ladies and vice presidents.
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Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition consisting of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections.
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Loc: Herblock's Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
Historically significant collection of political cartoons featuring U.S. Presidents from Library of Congress online teacher-student resources.
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Loc: Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive and varied resource shares images of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Conduct a keyword search to explore the collection.
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Loc: American Memory: Tactics and Techniques of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive essay lays out the tactics the National Woman's Party used in its campaign to obtain women's suffrage. In addition to an explanation of the various tactics are many photographs from the Library of Congress' Records of...
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Loc: American Memory: Historical Overview of the National Woman's Party [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this historical overview of the National Woman's Party, an organization focused on giving women the right to vote. Find out about some of the important figures in the fight and the ways the women tried to push their agenda. [pdf]
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Loc: The Industrial Revolution in the United States (Teacher's Guide) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Industrial Revolution was a complex set of economic, technological, and social changes that occurred over a substantial period of time. This teacher's guide gives background information, and suggestions for stimulating student...
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Loc: American Memory: Taking the Long View, 1851 1991

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of panoramic photographs covering many subjects from the Library of Congress.
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Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. With an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War...
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Loc: Primary Documents in American History: The Articles of Confederation

For Students 9th - 10th
The original Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between thirteen states, created in 1777 and ratified in 1781. It preceded the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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Loc: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention: Elliot's Debates

For Students 9th - 10th
Here one can view the five volumes of The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, which were put together by Jonathan Elliot in the mid-1800s. These debates extend from September 1787 to...
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Loc: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention: Farrand's Records

For Students 9th - 10th
Three of the four volumes of Max Farrand's collection of the records of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Called The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, these documents are a critical part of American governmental history.
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Loc: Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: The Making of the u.s. Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
The introduction to the first volume of the Annals of Congress, in which there is a short history of the creation of the Constitution, and the text of the Constitution as it was first written.
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Loc: Washington as It Was

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of historical photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak, a photographer who lived in the city from 1923 to 1959.
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Loc: Herblock's Gift

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Herb Block's Editorial Cartoons which were gifted to the Library of Congress. The archive includes records, clippings, photographs and various articles as well as 14,000 original drawings.
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Loc: Temple of Liberty

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress presents research materials about the building of the United States Capitol. Conceiving of themselves as inheritors, guardians, and conveyors of Western civilization, our founding fathers slowly built a Capitol...
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Loc: American Treasures: Cornwallis's Defeat at Yorktown

For Students 9th - 10th
A great map showing the arrangement of French ships during the French blockade at the Chesapeake Bay during the siege of Yorktown. From a collection at the Library of Congress.