Civics Critical Thinking Library 
NCHE
APRIL 1, 2025
The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement. The migrants Todd and Sonkin met were happy to sing, some hoping to be “discovered” for careers in radio.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. You would think these traits would be fundamental for educators, but it’s often lacking.
Let's Cultivate Greatness
JULY 5, 2023
Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. Students have the thinking; they just need a word bank! These Critical Thinking Skills Poster kit work for any social studies classroom.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 13, 2021
Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. We all know that fostering critical thinking skills is an essential part of this process. A mob gathers outside the White House during Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural reception, 1828. I scrolled through my memory for comparisons. As a high school teacher of U.S.
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