How did we come to dress up in costumes and go begging for candy? This site has the story behind Halloween and old photographs.

Illustrated overview of baseball's roots in the English game known as "rounders" or "four-old-cat."

Vermont "beccame the 14th state in 1791." The major industries are dairy, farming, and ______? Come and find out the missing industry.

Why does Wisconsin have the nickname, "America's Dairyland"? Come and check out the traditions of this great state.

One of the best baseball players of all time was involved in a scandal. Visit this Library of Congress site to learn more about Ty Cobb.

Carl Van Vechten was a photographer between 1932 and 1964. Here the LOC provides his portrait photography work of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance as well as a small collection of his American landscapes.

Listening to audio files and watching video clips of people who have fought in wars gives students a feel for the day to day life of a soldier. Frank Woodruff Buckles died in February, 2011. He was the last known World War I soldier....

Interview with poet Leroy Quintana about his years serving in the military, especially about his service in Vietnam.

This American Memory site provides a comprehensive collection of Abraham Lincoln papers. Read the introduction page so you can see how they are organized. You can search by keyword or just browse the collection. Very interesting!!

This site includes a unit about the Great Depression. Students will create a creative writing based on Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" photograph. They will also write a position paper on the United States' current welfare issue....

Find the reasoning behind the War Powers Act, passed over President Nixon's veto in 1973. Presidential actions taken during the Vietnam War were the impetus for Congress to make a declaration of war more codified. See the times...

Find contemporary newspaper accounts of the shooting of President Willian McKinley, his death, the swearing of Theodore Roosevelt as president, and the capture, trial, and execution of the assassin.

Set the class up for reading a primary source of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States in 1787. This lesson demonstrates the value of identifying and drafting documents the process to achieve the final document.

Walk into the life of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, through his autobiography found here. Discover a time line of Douglass's life, papers he'd written, as well as his family tree.

Resource showcases the holdings of Thomas Jefferson's personal library built around the themes of memory, reason, and imagination.

An exhibition showcasing key documents linked to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Included are drafts of the address, transcriptions of the address in English and 28 other languages, Lincoln's invitation to Gettysburg, the only...

Help students grasp the idea of making amendments with this lesson on the debates of the amendments to the US Constitution. Use primary sources to have the students choose their own amendments, give them opportunity to analyze the...

A beautiful exhibition reminds us of the extraordinary conditions that ordinary citizens must endure during times of war and conflict. Teachers write of their concerns, students write of bitter cold, citizens request food and aid. There...

Lesson plan on analyzing a political cartoon that satirizes the Stamp Act.

Watch and listen to a webcast of David Kresh, Reference Specialist in Poetry at the Library of Congress, discuss Langston Hughes, including his poetry and other writings, and the impact of his life and work both during the Harlem...

The Library of Congress presents primary documents from the 1st session of Congress to the 18th.

Read letters from homesteaders in Nebraska and view photographs of prairie life in Nebraska. Visitors can browse by topic, date, or keyword.

An excellent overview of the African American experience in America beginning with West Africa during the slave trade, through emancipation and reconstruction, to "New beginnings."

Collection of digitized prints of the library's holding of Civil War photographs. Includes information on how the photographs were taken, as well as an interesting look at photo manipulation.