Tracy K. Smith. Photo by Shawn Miller. Tracy K. Smith took the stage in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium on Wednesday night, September...
This is a guest post by Stephen Wesson of the Education Outreach Program. As educators return to the nation’s classrooms and school...
Billy Collins at the 2014 National Book Festival. Photo by Colena Turner. Anne Holmes of the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center wrote...
This is a guest post by Katherine Blood, curator of fine prints in the Prints and Photographs Division, and Linda Stiber Morenus,...
Billy Bragg, center, visited the American Folklife Center offices in July when he came to the Library to talk about his new...
This is a guest post by Gayle Osterberg, director of the Library’s Office of Communications. On January 31, award-winning author and literacy...
This is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, a reference specialist in the Main Reading Room. In an example of work from...
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. In a 1918 U.S. Department of Labor poster,...
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division. Alexander Hamilton from an original painting by Alonzo...
Tennis star Alice Marble on September 3, 1937, during the U.S. National Championships—now known as the U.S. Open—in Forest Hills, New York....