The Dirksen Congressional Center created a website focused on Everett Dirksen's travels for the House Committee on Appropriations in 1945. Details the extent of this trip with a list of places traveled, people he met with, and pictures....

This lesson focuses on apostrophes and contractions; it defines contractions and discusses how they are formed by using the apostrophe to replace the missing letters. It provides a list of common contractions and the words they stand...