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Loc: Early Motion Pictures, Sound Records of Edison Companies

For Students 1st - 9th
The Library of Congress provides information on Thomas Edison's profound contribution to the music industry.
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Loc: Edgar Allen Poe Was Born Jan. 1809

For Students 6th - 8th
A brief biography of Edgar Allen Poe's fascinating life is presented on this site from the Library of Congress. Illustrations and portraits enrich the four pages of information on this American author.
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Loc: Gen. Montgomery Captured Montreal

For Students 9th - 10th
Briefly profiles General Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold's assaults on Quebec during the Revolutionary War. Historic engravings are featured on these two pages from the Library of Congress.
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Loc: America's Story: Jamestown

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Library of Congress chronicles the Virginia Company and their settlement of Jamestown, in this fascinating site. Provides photos of the charter, a map drawn by John Smith, and a church tower from the colony.
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Loc: The Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Roy E. Stryker sent out photographers, employed by the Farm Security Administration, to take pictures of American life, primarily rural, between 1935 and 1944. Find hundreds of these photographs on this Library of Congress site.
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Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.
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Loc: Mediterranean World on the Eve of Conquest

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress provides an essay on the reasons for exploration during the 15th century.
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Loc: Revelations From the Russian Archives: Secret Police

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress is a brief description of the history of the secret police in the Soviet Union. Its origins are found during the time of the revolution.
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Loc: Wise Guide: Honor Your Father, at Least Once a Year

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress provides information on the origins and observation of Father's Day.
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Loc: The African American Mosaic: Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress presents a collection of primary source material on the beginnings of the American Colonization Society and efforts of free blacks to return to Liberia during the Nineteenth Century.
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Loc: Veterans History Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection, sponsored by the Library of Congress, of stories and experiences of veterans "while they are still among us." Students can also interview a veteran using the Project Kit supplied. Choose: How to participate in the Project...
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Loc: u.s. Participation in the Great War (World War One)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of the Progressive Era to New Era (1900-1929) through the use of primary sources provided by the Library of Congress, with concentration on World War One. Through these documents, the effects of the war on...
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Loc: Teachers: Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson from the Library of Congress on "the era of legal segregation in America, from Plessy v. Ferguson (1897) to Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)."
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Loc: Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides a timeline of the events surrounding the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Click around the Exhibits Home Page for some fantastic treasures housed in the Exhibit Hall.
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Loc: From Haven to Home: 350 Years of u.s. Jewish Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth online exhibit features more than two hundred treasures of American Jewish life from the Library of Congress and other cultural institutions.
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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: 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: 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: 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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Theodora: Slovakia: 2017

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and statistics about Slovakia, collected from the 2003 CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress Country Studies. Sections include geography, maps, population, religion, military, international issues, history,...
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Loc: Scrolls From the Dead Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition from the Library of Congress presents a selection from the Dead Sea Scrolls and discusses the challenges of verifying their authenticity as well as the history of their discovery and of being hidden away.
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Loc: Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence From the Haymarket Affair, 1886 1887

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson from the Library of Congress examines the Haymarket Square riot and resulting trial from many different perspectives. Read about the position the anarchists took, as well as the reactions of the police. Questions to encourage...
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Loc: Moby Dick Literary Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from the American Treasures of the Library of Congress, this site contains information and a link to a "Moby-Dick" literary map titled "The Voyage of the Pequod." The map link provides a full-color image of this historic...
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Loc: Today in History: July 12: Henry David Thoreau

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Library of Congress "Today in History," this website provides biographical information about Henry David Thoreau along with photographs of Thoreau and Walden Pond. Provides links to online text for Thoreau's work, links to...

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