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1.9KPic of the Week: Cajun Music from Louisiana
Photo by Shawn Miller The BeauSoleil Quartet performed the lively and soulful music of Louisiana Cajuns on June 28 in the Coolidge...
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2.0KHistory’s Greatest Birthday Card: The Polish Declarations
This is a guest post by Sahr Conway-Lanz, a historian in the Manuscript Division. Watercolor depicting the view of Kazimierz Dolny, in...
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1.8KPride in the Library: LGBTQ+ Voices in the Library’s Collections
This is a guest post by Meg Metcalf, women’s, gender and LGBTQ+ studies librarian in the Main Reading Room. The collections of...
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1.9KNew Online: Margaret Bayard Smith Papers
This is the first of two related guest posts by Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe and author...
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1.8KMay It Please the Court: “Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom Illustration”
(The following is an excerpt from an article by Sara W. Duke from the May/June 2017 issue of LCM, the Library of...
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2.0KServing with Pride: LGBTQ+ Veterans’ Oral History Workshop
This is a guest post by Meg Metcalf, women’s, gender and LGBTQ+ studies librarian in the Main Reading Room. Owen Rogers of...
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2017 Main Stage Authors Announced!
(The following is a repost from the National Book Festival blog. The author is Lola Pyne of the Library’s Office of Communications.)...
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1.9KThis Day in History: Statue of Liberty
Profile view of the left side of the Statue of Liberty’s head. Photo by Jet Lowe for the Historic American Engineering Record....
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1.8KPic of the Week: Wonder Woman Visits the Library
Photo by Shawn Miller. Lynda Carter (right), the famed actress known for her role as Wonder Woman, talked comics with Librarian of...
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1.8KRemix, Slang and Memes: A New Collection Documents Web Culture
This is a guest post by Nicole Saylor, head of archives at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. A...
