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Talking Textiles: Marvels of Pre-Columbian America

This is a guest post by Rosemary Ryan, an archaeological research fellow at the Library. She is a student at Towson University...

Wallis Annenberg. Photo courtesy of the Annenberg Foundation. Fourteen million pictures have the power to document a nation as diverse as the...

This is a guest post by Sahr Conway-Lanz, a former Manuscript Division historian. Robert Lansing, circa 1919. Robert Lansing spent the height...

To mark the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth—he was born on August 25, 1918—we’re republishing a column by his daughter Jamie Bernstein...

This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, who interned this summer in the Library’s Communications Office through the Junior Fellows Program....

This is a guest post by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. What is a library? “A quiet place for study and reflection”...

This is a guest post by Anne Holmes of the Poetry and Literature Center. It was first published on “From the Catbird...

What? You haven’t decided whether or not you’re going to be coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Sept. 1 for the Library...

The “Queen of Soul,” singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin died today at age 76. Her 1967 recording of the song “Respect” was among the...

This is a guest post by Sonya Lee, a Korean reference specialist in the Asian Division, and Cameron Penwell, a Japanese reference...