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C-SPAN Classroom has developed a lesson to help your students research and learn about their members of Congress. Using the accompanying presentation and handouts, students will identify their members of Congress, determine the committees on which they serve and explain their purpose, distinguish who their contributors are, examine their voting records and bills, evaluate the collected data, and explain how they serve their constituents.

"The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."

easy way to find music from different eras

Link to Library of Congress site for teachers. Lots of resources including primary sources

Check out all of these great primary sources from LoC

post links to Library of Congress political cartoon collection and also to cartoons for the classroom a service of the Assoc. of American Editorial Cartoonists. The latter site provides lesson plan ideas.

"In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress."

"This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures."

The Digital Vaults offers three good tools that students and teachers can use to create content using images and documents from the National Archives. The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.

good ideas on using historic newspapers.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1860-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Sets of selected primary sources on specific topics, available as easy-to-print PDFs. Also, background material and tools to guide student analysis.

links to a vast number of lessons plans from the LoC. Organized by topic or by era

lots of lesson ideas from the LoC.

great article from the LOC on primary sources. Very easy to understand with examples

Great explanation of primary sources. Good starting point for students

guides to analyzing primary sources