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Joy Williams Wins The 2021 Prize for American Fiction

Joy Williams, wearing her trademark prescription sunglasses, accepts the 2021 Prize for American Fiction from Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Photo: Rob...

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Drag Queens! Copyright Your Work!

Female impersonators from the “An Evening With La Cage,” the Las Vegas show that ran for 23 years, closing in 2009. Photo:...

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Hezbollah; Crime Behind the Mask

Since its inception, Hezbollah has leveraged a worldwide network of supporters—from formal operatives to informal sympathizers—to provide financial, logistical, and sometimes even...

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Pride Night Online! Coming June 28

Megan Metcalf with some of the Library’s LGBTQ collections. 2019. Photo: Shawn Miller. This is a guest post by Megan Metcalf, the...

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The Great Buchanan Inheritance Hoax

President James Buchanan’s name was used to lend credibility to the hoax. Prints and Photographs Division. This is a guest post by...

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The Birth of Juneteenth Wasn’t Big News in 1865

Betty Bormer, who was freed by the military order that founded Juneteenth. Fort Worth, Texas. June 26, 1937. Photo: Works Progress Administration....

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Free to Use and Reuse: The Photographs of Bernard Gotfryd

CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite reporting on the 1980 presidential election. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd. Prints and Photographs Division. The photographs of Bernard...

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Reading Rooms Reopen!

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden greets researcher Jay Driskell following the opening of the reading room. Photo: Shawn Miller. Reading rooms around...