LoC Global
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745“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...
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909Free to Use and Reuse: Movie Magic
The Grand Riviera’s opening week, 1925. Historic American Buildings Survey. Photo: Jack Boucher. Prints and Photographs Division. The Grand Riviera Theatre opened...
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783Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood: On Stage at the Library March 2
Garth Brooks, the 2020 recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Garth Brooks has friends in library places – sorry, couldn’t...
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687For Presidents Day…Why Not Read Lincoln’s Mail?
Our very own Michelle Krowl and special guest. Photo: Shawn Miller. When President Abraham Lincoln (in the form of George Buss of...
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840Love Letters Straight to Your Heart
“Devoted lover,” Ulysses S. Grant. ca. 1860. Photo: Bain News Service. Prints and Photographs Division. History knows Ulysses S. Grant as the...
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1.2KLove in the Comics: The Star-Crossed Story of “Negro Romance”
Panel from “Negro Romance” #2. Art: Alvin Hollingsworth. Serial and Government Publications Division. Hayley Salvatore, an intern in the Office of Communications,...
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824“Caged Bird” Inspired by the Library of Congress
Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age...
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760“Ro-sa Parks! Ro-sa Parks!” Kicking off Black History Month
We’re kicking off Black History Month with — wh0 else — Rosa Parks, whose papers are currently the subject of a major...
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785Library Makes an Unsplash
Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, N.J. Dry-plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Co., publisher, [between 1900 and 1920]. Prints...
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900American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft of the Library’s Manuscript Division. Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
