Photo: Shawn Miller. This Friday, we bring you a dazzling, 550-year-old pop of color: A scene from a 15th-century Chinese publication, “The...
It’s in (almost) every book you read, but you’ve probably paid little attention to it. The Library’s Cataloging in Publication (CIP) information...
This story is cross-posted on the blogs of the Library of Congress, National Archives, and Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative. When it...
Cast members of “19: The Musical” perform during the “Shall Not Be Denied” exhibition opening. Photo: Shawn Miller. This week marked the...
This is a guest post by Sam Meier, a Library technician, who writes about the curatorial and archival work that went into...
This is a guest post written by Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy. A professor from California, an entrepreneur from Boston, an...
This is a guest post by Jennifer Davis, a collections specialist in the Law Library’s Collection Services Division. It originally appeared on...
This post is adapted from an upcoming article in the Library of Congress Magazine. Jeannette Rankin addresses a D.C. crowd just before...
As the 75th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Ryan Moore, a cartographic specialist in the Geography and Map Division, writes about a top-secret...
Whitman autographed this photo by Alexander Gardner. Feinberg-Whitman Collection. Walter Whitman (no middle name, thanks) was born on this day in West...