American Memory Fellows Program

Program Overview

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Funded by a private anonymous donor, the Library of Congress' National Digital Library is sponsoring The American Memory Fellows Program, the third in a series of institutes to help schools make powerful educational use of the American Memory collections. The first American Memory Fellows program, in 1997, was supported by the Kellogg Foundation. Helping facilitate the institute is the EDC Center for Children and Technology, a non-profit education development firm.

The American Memory collections are digitized primary source documents in American history and culture now available on the World Wide Web. The more than 50 collections now online include:

BROADSIDES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
MATHEW BRADY'S CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS
AFRICAN AMERICAN PAMPHLETS FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
EARLY FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF URBAN AMERICA
ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE DEPRESSION ERA

These rich primary resources offer great potential for strengthening humanities instruction, by helping students actively engage in the study of history, develop critical thinking skills, and connect history to their own lives.

The American Memory Fellows Program will gather teams of middle and high school humanities teachers and library/media specialists from across the country to learn about these unique resources and to create exemplary teaching units that can be shared with other educators. Fellows will enjoy a lively professional development experience with outstanding colleagues and will shape the way the Library's unique primary source collections are used in schools across the country.

American Memory Fellows Will

American Memory Fellows Are Required To

American Memory Fellows Will Receive

the remainder as an honorarium;

Professional development in the use of web-based archival resources and the creation of model teaching materials;

Opportunities to publish high-quality work online, as part of the American Memory Learning Page.