Guided Primary Source Analysis: Snake Game
Zoom into a detailed image of this game board (.pdf). Describe one thing you find interesting, one thing you think is curious or strange, and one thing you have a question about. Rules. This Game is played with Two Dice or a Tee-To-Tum; and any Number of Persons can play at it. From No. 1, in…
Featured Source: President Obama’s 2013 Inauguration Address
Image powered by Wordle™: View image online at Wordle.net Text: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-president-barack-obama President Barack Obama works on his inaugural address with Jon Favreau, Director of Speechwriting, not pictured, in the Oval Office Jan. 16, 2013 Featured Image: President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address
Featured Source: King mural detail, District of Columbia Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream Image Sequencing Activity
Featured Source: Systema Solare et Planetarium
This fabulous 18th-century map of the universe was featured in a December, 11, 2012 post about the Geminid meteor shower by Jennifer Harbster for the Library of Congress blog Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business. Be sure to read it!
Featured Source: Peaceful Village
Quiltmaker Interview How did you choose the materials used in your quilt? “I challenged myself to use all American fabrics and place them so that they had an African effect. I ended up using two small pieces of African fabric. One piece was from Soweto and has the face of Malcolm X on it. The…
Guided Primary Source Analysis: The Awakening
Primary source analysis ideas from the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog Source bibliographic record Poem by Alice Duer Miller (printed at the bottom of the source) Look forward, women, always; utterly cast away The memory of hate and struggle and bitterness; Bonds may endure for a night, but freedom comes with the day, And…