{"id":804,"date":"2022-11-15T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/?p=804"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:19:50","slug":"national-heritage-months-holidays-and-primary-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/national-heritage-months-holidays-and-primary-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"National Heritage Months, Holidays, and Primary Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

*This article was published in the TPS Teachers Network on October 12, 2022,\u00a0 and written by Mary Johnson, TPS Teachers Network Manager.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you grew up carving jack-o-lanterns, making green and red construction paper garlands, or filling May baskets with popcorn and lilies of the valley, you probably have a fond childhood memory of honoring more than one holiday tradition through craftmaking. Over the intervening years, school curriculum calendars have largely moved beyond such nostalgia. Today, schools and community groups across the United States celebrate the heritage, holidays, and contributions of a far wider range of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious groups. We also have access to vast collections of primary sources to add meaning and depth to learning about holidays and special heritage months. We only need to know where to look.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Library of Congress Pages for Heritage Months<\/b><\/h3>\n

The Library of Congress features a number of online pages for heritage months with primary sources drawn not only from its own collections, but also from collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the National Endowment for the Humanities – with others added as the topic dictates. The <\/span>Jewish American Heritage Month<\/span><\/a> page, for example, adds vital resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and even one image from the Supreme Court!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I asked Danna Bell<\/a> if the Library had any single page with a list of all the National Heritage Month pages, and she replied that there\u2019s no actual collection page. However, she noted that the Library hosts sites that include resources for various federal cultural heritage institutions. In addition to the Jewish American Heritage Month page above, she shared links to the following sites:<\/span><\/p>\n