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Accessing the American Memory collection: Browse by subject, chronology, and geography
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 3
Browsing the collections gives anyone new to American Memory a chance to get a sense of the scope and variety of its materials. For the experienced user, browsing allows you to unearth previously undiscovered resources—with...
By Melissa Thibault.
Accessing the American Memory collection: Multimedia formats and offline-use tips
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 4
The American Memory collection contains a wide variety of formats including motion pictures, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, and photos. First, learn how to find them, then explore options for use in your classroom.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
Accessing the American Memory collection: Searching
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 2
Take a look at the second installment in the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide and find out how to search the collections with success. You'll learn all kinds of tricks and techniques, and even explore the Library of Congress's latest search tool.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
Collection Connections
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 7
In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to find teaching resources associated with the Library of Congress's primary source collections.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
The Learning Page: Activities and features
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 6
In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to easily locate activities and features specially designed for students and your classroom.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
The Learning Page: Community Center
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 8
This installment of the American Memory Guide explores the Learning Page's Community Center, highlighting features of particular interest to teachers.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
The Learning Page: Getting started with primary sources
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 5
Introduces a primary sources guide made available through the Library of Congress's The Learning Page. You'll also get an introduction to some of the LOC's lessons that will help your students use primary source materials.
By Melissa Thibault.
Today in History
In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 1
In this first installment to the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide discover the in and outs of making calendar connections to primary source materials using the Today in History feature.
By Melissa Thibault.
Works available for use
In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.4
Many works, copyrighted or not, are available to the public for various kinds of use, including republication and distribution. The public domain The public domain comprises works...
Format: article
By David Walbert.