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1.6KLoC GlobalPic of the Week: National Book Festival Draws Tens of Thousands
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (left) interviewed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the Main stage of the National Book Festival...
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1.5KLoC GlobalTalking Textiles: Marvels of Pre-Columbian America
This is a guest post by Rosemary Ryan, an archaeological research fellow at the Library. She is a student at Towson University...
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1.5KLoC GlobalInquiring Minds: Showcasing Library Photos on the West Coast
Wallis Annenberg. Photo courtesy of the Annenberg Foundation. Fourteen million pictures have the power to document a nation as diverse as the...
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New Online: The Man Who Would Not Let History Forget Him
This is a guest post by Sahr Conway-Lanz, a former Manuscript Division historian. Robert Lansing, circa 1919. Robert Lansing spent the height...
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Leonard Bernstein Centennial: My Father, Leonard Bernstein
To mark the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth—he was born on August 25, 1918—we’re republishing a column by his daughter Jamie Bernstein...
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Free to Use and Reuse: Pilot Browser Extension Supports Exploration of Historical Images
This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, who interned this summer in the Library’s Communications Office through the Junior Fellows Program....
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A Library for You
This is a guest post by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. What is a library? “A quiet place for study and reflection”...
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New Online: “Poetry of America” Recordings
This is a guest post by Anne Holmes of the Poetry and Literature Center. It was first published on “From the Catbird...
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1.4KLoC Global10 Great Things About #NatBookFest 2018
What? You haven’t decided whether or not you’re going to be coming to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Sept. 1 for the Library...
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1.6KLoC GlobalAretha Franklin and “Respect”
The “Queen of Soul,” singer-songwriter Aretha Franklin died today at age 76. Her 1967 recording of the song “Respect” was among the...
