This week I had a chance to look at a Web site that I found fascinating. This is a site that teaches American history in a manner that will appeal to adults and older children alike. The Library of Congress presents "America's Story from America's Library" as a public service in its mission to provide online access to its collections. The Web site contains many documents, prints, photographs, maps, recordings and other materials from the past."America's Story from America's Library" wants you to have fun with history while learning at the same time. They want to put the story back in history and show you some things that you've never heard or seen before. The stuff you see online comes from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. This is the largest library in the world and has millions of amazing things that will surprise you. During my visit to the site, I was able to look at fascinating pictures of American inventors, listen to Thomas Edison's voice extracted from an early recording, watch vaudeville acts filmed about 100 years ago, and even watch a film clip of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show made in 1902. "America's Story from America's Library" contains letters, diaries, records and tapes, films, sheet music, maps, prints, photographs and digital materials.
Take a look!
I bet you will enjoy it.