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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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Joy Williams Wins 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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601Drag 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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572Hezbollah; 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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567Pride 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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671The 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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618The 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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624Free 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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604Reading Rooms Reopen!
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden greets researcher Jay Driskell following the opening of the reading room. Photo: Shawn Miller. Reading rooms around...
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721The Birth Certificate for “America”
Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map used the term “America” for the first time in describing the New World. –– This piece was co-written...
