About the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, primarily located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts, and more. The Library has three main buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. (Adams, Jefferson and Madison), which house physical collections, reading rooms, exhibition spaces, auditoriums and offices and the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia.

The Library’s mission is to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. The Library is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress.

About the Teaching with Primary Sources Program (TPS)

The Teaching with Primary Sources program has been the Library of Congress’s premier educational outreach program. The goals of the program have included providing instructional materials, tools, education and professional development that enhance teachers’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress into instruction that builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge and ability to conduct original research. As members of the TPS Consortium, Consortium partners are valued as “Connectors” who help the Library achieve its vision of connecting to all Americans. www.loc.gov/teachers

About the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative (LHI)

The Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative (LHI) is a new initiative included under the TPS program. In the joint explanatory statement for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2023, Congress established the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative and appropriated funds to the Library of Congress to administer an educational program as a part of the Initiative, and fund eligible organizations within the United States (U.S.) and its territories to develop digitally-enabled comprehensive, assessable teaching project-based creative arts driven curricular programs focused on using the digitized primary sources of the Library of Congress related to history, civics and democracy.

Organizations receiving LHI awards design and implement educational products in which the Library’s music or creative arts-focused primary sources and other online materials are central to teaching and learning about history, civics, and democracy.

Purpose

With this notice, the Library seeks to solicit project proposals from current LHI partners that expand the use of teaching materials, tools, and strategies they developed under previous LHI awards.