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1.6KLoC GlobalInquiring Minds: Celebrating Black Musical Theater
Ben West in the Music Division’s reading room. Photo by David Rice. For going on a decade now, theater historian Ben West...
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1.5KLoC GlobalAfrican-American History Month: The Struggle for Civil Rights Past, Present and Future
This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Researcher and Reference Services Division. Maria Stewart’s...
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1.3KLoC GlobalDid Galileo Own the Library’s Copy of ‘The Starry Messenger’?
A partial handprint is visible on the bottom of this page from near the end of “The Starry Messenger.” Asking intriguing questions...
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1.4KLoC GlobalOmar Ibn Said: Conserving a One-of-a-Kind Manuscript
This is a guest post by Sylvia Albro, a senior paper conservator in the Conservation Division. Earlier this month, the Library released...
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1.2KLoC GlobalInquiring Minds: Opening a Treasure Chest of Unfinished Stories
Addie Card, whose photo inspired Joe Manning to launch a project to tell the stories of the people whose lives early 20th-century...
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1.4KLoC GlobalOmar Ibn Said: Transcribing Documents from the Unique Collection
This is a guest post by Adam Rothman, a professor of history at Georgetown University and an expert on the history of...
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1.3KLoC GlobalInquiring Minds: Author Takes a Deep Dive into the Library
Barb Rosenstock talks with students at the Library on Dec. 10. Photo by Shawn Miller. Barb Rosenstock writes children’s book about people...
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1.3KLoC GlobalCrowdsourcing Helps to Unlock the Mystery of Cursive
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division, and Victoria Van Hyning, a senior innovation specialist...
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1.4KLoC GlobalRecovering Silent Films: The Mostly Lost Workshop
This is a guest post by Mark Hartsell, editor of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The post is reprinted from the...
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1.2KLoC GlobalNew Online: Rare Autobiography by Enslaved West African Scholar
This is a guest post by Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division. Omar Ibn Said. Courtesy of the...
