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Educational Resources
Teachers and students can use these resources to explore the history and collections of the Library of Congress.
Learn more about…
The Library of Congress
- About the Library
- Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress
- Virtual Tour
- The Thomas Jefferson Building: Secret Messages
- The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look
Thomas Jefferson and his Library of Congress
- Thomas Jefferson’s Library
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson’s Library: Making the Case for a National Library
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
- Thomas Jefferson’s Library: Connecting the Books to the Life
- Thomas Jefferson’s Library: Word Search
Library of Congress Treasures
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress
- Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
- Cartoon America
- Creating the United States
- Exploring the Early Americas
- From the Home Front and the Front Lines
- Library of Congress Bible Collection
- Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
- World Treasures of the Library of Congress
- Creating the Declaration of Independence
- Creating the United States Institution
- Creating the Bill of Rights Interactive
- Waldseemüller’s Map Interactive
- Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress
Teacher Resources
- Creating the United States: Word Search
- The Declaration of Independence: Rewriting the Rough Draft
- Making Connections Through Poetry
- Maps and Mapmakers: Seeing What’s on the Map
- Songs for Our Times
- What in the World is That?
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1939-1945
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention from 1774-1789
- Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
- Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
- Enhancing a Poetry Unit With American Memory
- Figuring Somepin ‘Bout the Great Depression
- Huexotzinco Codex
- Waldseemüller’s Map: World 1507
- American Memory Timeline
- Lyrical Legacy
- Zoom Into Maps
- Constitution
- Dust Bowl Migration
- Hispanic Exploration
- Primary Sources by State
- Veterans’ Stories: The Veteran’s History Project
- Civics and Government
- Civil War
- Geography and Maps
- Great Depression
- Hispanic Americans
- Literature and Poetry
- Music and Dance
- Science and Invention
- Wars and the Home Front
- Women’s History
