Look What I found!
Treasures from Library of Congress Online Collections
September 2007
September 17, 1787: Constitution Day Resources
Create a history lab experience where your students can hold, examine, and analyze historical artifacts using Primary Source Sets available from the Library of Congress – or make your own! You can engage your students with images that provide historical evidence about people, places, and events surrounding the establishing of our nation and it’s Constitution.
American Memory Timeline: Find primary source excerpts and discussion questions related to the Constitution during the period 1783-1815.
Listen to President Calvin Coolidge’s speech, The Duty of Government, or President Warren Harding’s speech on Americanism.
-LOC, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1788, Chart of State Votes on the United States Constitution
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law." By directly mentioning the role of the states to protect civil rights, the 14th is cited in more litigation than any other amendment.
THOMAS allows you to closely follow the workings of Congress – status of bills, roll call votes, public law, treaties, presidential nominations, activities for teachers, and more!
August 2007
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, by the Central Labor Union. The form of the observance and celebration of Labor Day included a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent citizens came later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic significance of the holiday that celebrated the contributions of American labor. http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm
Here are some images I found by doing a search in American Memory for Labor Day. Click Gallery View to see thumbnails.
What others can you find? www.loc.gov
Meat cutters wearing checkered overcoats marching in a Labor
Day parade in Chicago in 1908.
A Labor Day parade float with rows of girls wearing white
dresses and men wearing military uniforms on Michigan
Avenue in Chicago, 1904.