Library of Congress Online

Powerful new search tools and carefully screened lessons and primary source collections make the Library of Congress a “must” for teachers.

Library’s Homepage
Begin to discover the Library’s enormous digital collections here.

Library’s Teacher page
The portal for professional development, primary source sets, lesson plans, and other teacher resources. Includes selected sets of primary sources from the Library’s huge collection.

Library’s MyLOC page
Offers links to useful exhibits and other resources on the Library website. Create and organize bookmarks to get back to exciting primary sources and other resources at the Library online.

Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources page
Lists all Teaching with Primary Source partners, as well as news about the Library of Congress, programming, a quarterly newsletter and more.

Introduction to the Library of Congress.
Self-paced, online, interactive orientation to using the Library of Congress online. You can print a certificate of completion.

Library of Congress Teacher blog.
Excellent regular posts by Library of Congress outreach staff and other veteran educators explore resources and innovative ways to use them. To subscribe to email notices of all their posts, scroll down to “Subscribe and Comment” at bottom of the Teacher Blog page. Then click on “RSS & E-Mail” and select “Teachers”.