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763LoC GlobalNational Recording Registry: It’s Victor Willis, Mr. “Y.M.C.A”!
Victor Willis, center, in his role as the cop with the Village People. Copyright 2019. Courtesy of Harlem West Entertainment. Victor Willis,...
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684LoC GlobalMystery Photo Contest: The Lady in the Hat Revealed!
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry runs our Mystery Photo Contest. In this guest blog, he’s back with the story...
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745LoC GlobalParents! Smart Fun for Kids
Student learning to use a sextant at a Los Angeles high school, 1942. Photo: Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division. The...
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841LoC GlobalJapanese Pilot’s Map of Pearl Harbor Attack Now at Library
Mitsuo Fuchida had one of the more interesting lives of the 20th century. He led the Japanese strike force in the attack...
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744LoC GlobalWriting African Americans into the Story
Jesse Holland. Photo by Shawn Miller Jesse Holland wears a lot of different hats: he’s an award-winning political journalist, he’s a television...
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726LoC GlobalBugs in the White House? In Lincoln’s Time, They Swarmed
This is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Manuscript Division. John G. Nicholay, c. 1860. Prints and Photographs...
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872LoC GlobalGarth Brooks: Live at the Library
Gershwin Prize winner Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood were at the Library for several events this week. Monday night, they...
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794LoC Global“Dearest Lenny”: Leonard Bernstein’s Love Letters from Japan
A 1970 letter to Bernstein from Kazuko Amano, one of his longtime correspondents from Japan. Used with permission. For pretty much all...
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727LoC GlobalA President and a King, George Washington and King George III, in a Dangerous Year
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division. A print of busts of King George...
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765LoC Global“Truth is mighty and will prevail”– Ida B. Wells
We started Black History Month with the great Rosa Parks from Alabama and we’re winding it up today with the great Ida...
