Zoom-In Inquiry

Fireworks. Fireworks from Treasury Department steps with Washington Monument. Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 , Library of Congress’ American Memory Division.

What is your favorite holiday?

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Why do people celebrate holidays?

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Be a holiday detective and look for clues about one U.S. holiday!

[Charles Thiel looking through a magnifying glass at a large paper lying on a table, sitting in a room]. Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 , Library of Congress’ American Memory Division.

What do you see?

Would you like to visit this place?

Is this the past or the present?

What details makes you think

that?

What might be happening?

What new clues do you see?

Who is the kneeling man? Why do we study him?

Columbus taking possession of the new country, Library of Congress’ Prints and Photographs

Division.

Many countries have a holiday to celebrate Columbus.

In the United States,

Columbus Day is the 2nd

Monday in October.

[Calendar, 1872. [Wash., D. C., 1871?]. An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera Library of Congress’ American Memory Division.

The Queen of Spain gave Columbus a Coat of Arms and special

privileges as a reward!

Columbus' Coat of Arms In Christopher Columbus, His Book of Privileges, 1502. Library of Congress’ Rare Book and Special Collections Division

So why do we celebrate Columbus

Day?

My Columbus Day Coat of Arms

Make a Coat of Arms to celebrate

Columbus!

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