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"The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. The Big Read answers a big need. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young. The concerned citizen in search of good news about American literary culture would study the pages of this report in vain. "

from digital public library of America; great sets to accompany a text (great gatsby), or history unit

Library of Congress asked curators and experts to compile a list of books that have influenced us as a nation

This is old, but it's a great infographic!

Topics: Global Education, Global Literature, Africa, Japan, Latin America, Middle East, Modern China, South Asia, Immigration and Migration

A wealth of knowledge from libraries, archives, and museums

This is interesting!!!

Order a poster for your classroom on how to become president of the USA. Great resources here to teach the election process.

The Library of Congress has digitized all the micrfiche of all the newspapers it had access to from 1836-1922. You can search by term or name within any state

Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.

The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting.