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506LoC GlobalJason Reynolds: Grab the Mic Newsletter, Black History Month Edition
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is back from his mid-winter break with a February newsletter. First things first:...
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605LoC GlobalFree to Use and Reuse: Wedding Pictures
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier on their wedding day. Photo: Toni Frissell. Prints and Photographs Division. Who doesn’t love a good...
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550LoC GlobalWorld War II: Voices of War
Giles McCoy. Veterans History Project. For Independence Day, we offer the lead piece from the Library of Congress Magazine July/August 2020 issue,...
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670LoC Global“The Most Mysterious Woman…” Identified!
The photo that stumped readers for years. She looked so familiar, yet no one could identify her. Cary O’Dell at the Library’s...
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485LoC GlobalHow Will We Remember COVID-19?
Life during the pandemic. Photo: Camilo Vergara. Prints and Photographs Division. People chatting in the sun beside a taco truck in Oakland,...
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2020 Kluge Prize Winner: Harvard Professor Danielle Allen
{mediaObjectId:'A8B1B27D9F5F002CE0538C93F116002C',playerSize:'mediumWide'} The Office of Communications and the Multi-Media Group produced the above video. Brett Zongker in the Office of Communications wrote this...
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617LoC GlobalThe Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved
On Saturday, June 19, 1865, in Limestone County, Texas, plantation owner Logan Stroud stood on the front porch of this house to...
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666LoC GlobalHearing Frederick Douglass: His Speech on John Brown
Frederick Douglass, 1870, about age 52. Photo: George F. Schreiber. Prints and Photographs Division. One of the most compelling stories in American...
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705LoC GlobalProtests That Changed America: The March on Washington
The March on Washington gets underway. Photo: Warren K. Leffler. Prints and Photographs Division. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and...
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Jason Reynolds: Inventing Synonyms
Ready, writers? Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, has a new writing exercise that involves more thinking than actual...
