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Loc: America's Story: Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was adopted to protect each United States citizen's rights. Learn about how the Bill of Rights was formed and the protections it guarantees to Americans.
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Loc: America's Story: Assassination of President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln has the distinction of being the first President to be assassinated. The Library of Congress has more information about the events surrounding this historic event.
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Loc: America's Story: The Battle of Antietam
What was the bloodiest battle in all American history? The Battle of Antietam , during the Civil War, wins this dubious honor. The Library of Congress has more information about this famous battle along with some actual photographs.
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Loc: Churchill and the Great Republic: Memo. Of Conservation, Yalta
From a larger Library of Congress exhibit on Winston Churchill, this document is a memorandum of a conversation Churchill had during a dinner at the Yalta Conference. Zooming in allows the document to be read.
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Loc: Attacks of Intelligentsia
This site from the Library of Congress shows that among the victims of the Great Terror were artists and intellectuals who were required to promote the socialist consciousness under Stalin.
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Loc: American Memory: The Prosperity of the Coolidge Era
Within a larger Library of Congress site about the economy during the Coolidge administration, this page provides reasons for the prosperity in the 1920s.
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Loc: Portuguese Exploration Along the Northeast Coast of North America
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives a history of the Portuguese explorations of North America. The information is fairly brief, but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
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Loc: World of 1898: The Spanish American War: Cuba During the War
Check out this page from the Library of Congress and choose to read a wartime essay about Cuba, see a timeline, or look at maps of Cuba. Includes photos too!
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Loc: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Search the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress with this online bibliography resource. There are over 5,000 titles that explore both the social sciences and the humanities.
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Loc: The Nature of Dance
This site from the Library of Congress provides sketches of costume designs used at the premiere of choreographer Lester Hortons "Le Sacre du Printemps", original dance work.
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Loc: World of 1898: Chronology of Puerto Rico in the Spanish American War
Check out this page from the Library of Congress for a chronology of events in Puerto Rico during and after the Spanish-American War.
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Loc: American Treasurers: The Murder of Crispus Attucks
This Library of Congress site contains scanned images of the newspaper article of the trial of William Wemms for the murder of Crispus Attucks.
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Alex: Comparing Classification Systems
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Library of Congress Classification System. They will then compare this system to the Dewey Decimal System.
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Loc: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis
Young scholars will develop visual literacy skills by analyzing the images from John White Alexander's mural in the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress while learning about the history of the Library of Congress. Then,...
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Loc: Freedom's Fortress: Loc, 1939 1953
This tells the history of the Library of Congress during a particularly important period, from 1939 to 1953.
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Loc: Marching to a New Tune
Learn about John Philip Sousa's last composition, "The Library of Congress March," which was performed for the first time in 2003.
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Loc: September 11 Acquisitions
The Library of Congress has received original material including photographs, drawings, poems, eye-witness accounts, maps, and much more concerning the attacks on September 11th. They have archived this is a special exhibition.
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Alex: Calling All Books!
High school learners learn the basic outline of the Library of Congress Classification system that is used in larger college and public libraries. The class will place a collection of books into the correct classifications. An...
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Loc: California History Collection: Spanish California
This site from the Library of Congress contains great, but somewhat brief, information on Spanish California. The text is about three paragraphs long, but has great information on the early Spanish settlers of California.
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Loc: America's Story: Iowa
This America's Story entry fro Iowa from the Library of Congress tells you facts and lore about the state suitable for a great paper and citable resource.
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Loc: Westward Expansion: Links to the Past
Students use documents from California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900, in American Memory to create a script depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and realizations of immigrants who settled California between...
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Alex: Where Can I Find That Book?
This lesson plan allows students to use current topics of study (e.g. the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts) to learn about the Library of Congress Classification System (LCC).
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Loc: Cold War Estrangement
This site from the Library of Congress discusses the progress of World War II, and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
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Loc: When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective
A Library of Congress Exhibition launching the book, "When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood from the Library of Congress". Very famous and thoughtful photographs with prose by Robert Coles.