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1.9KNational Garden Week: How Does Your Garden Grow?
(The following is an article by Erin Allen from the May/June 2017 issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. Read the...
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2.0KPic of the Week: Kids Celebrate Reading Milestone
Led by Library of Congress staff member Teresa St. Angelo (center), elementary school students search for details in the ornamentation of the...
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1.9KInquiring Minds: Setting the Record Straight on Pirates and Their Wives
Daphne Geanacopoulos at the Library of Congress. Photo by Shawn Miller. Pirate lore has long captivated us and, through the centuries, worked...
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1.9KNew Finding Aid: Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Resources
This is a guest post by Andrew Gaudio, reference librarian and classics, medieval studies and linguistics specialist in the Humanities and Social...
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2.0KForm Follows Function: Diverse Collections Require Diverse Modern Storage
(The following is an article by Jennifer Gavin from the May/June 2017 issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. Gavin is...
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2.0KPic of the Week: Celebrating Classical Cambodian Dance
Photo by Shawn Miller. The Cambodian-American Heritage Dancers and the Chum Ngek Ensemble performed classical Khmer dance and music in the Coolidge...
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1.8KInquiring Minds: Restoring the Legacy of a Barnstorming Movie Man
In a clip from a soon-to-be-released documentary about early motion pictures, George Willeman (left) of the Library’s Packard Campus for Audio Visual...
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1.9KCelebrating Yiddish American Popular Song
“Bist Mein Kroin Mein Welt” from the Library’s Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music Collection. Published in 1911 by Hebrew Publishing Company, New...
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1.9KRecognizing the Service of Asian-Pacific-American Veterans
The following is a republication of a post by Andrew Huber, liaison specialist for the Veterans History Project. It was first published...
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1.9KFree to Use and Reuse: Gorgeous Gardens, Breakthrough Buildings and Notable Designs
A Frances Benjamin Johnston lantern slide of the gardens of Beacon Hill House in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917. Beacon Hill House...
