For the past 10 weeks, 47 college students have been digging through a variety of Library of Congress collections–finding amazing stuff so people like you can come here and get lost in it.
Such as?
Such as an ad for a patent medicine that figured in an 1898 murder case; a first edition in Russian of …
Archive for the ‘American Folklife Center’ Category (4 posts)
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Books, Cataloging, Collections, Copyright, Education, Poetry
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Memorial Day is upon us again, a time to reflect on American veterans — men and women who sacrificed their lives for our nation.
The Veterans History Project (VHP), an oral history program of the Library’s American Folklife Center, was created by Congress in 2000 to collect, preserve, and make accessible the first-hand recollections of American …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, History, veterans history project
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Jennifer Cutting of the Library’s American Folklife Center talks about the origins of May Day and its celebration.
We have temporarily put that video on the front page of our relatively new YouTube channel.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, History, Video
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