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Watch on Demand: Author Talks from LGBTQ+ Authors

September 22, 2023

Tracing General Sherman's "March to the Sea"

September 22, 2023

Chichén Itzá - Pic of the Week

September 22, 2023

Missed You Much: The Library's ASCAP Concert Bursts Back into Life

September 21, 2023

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution

September 21, 2023

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• Missed You Much: The Library’s ASCAP Concert Bursts Back into Life
• “Books That Shaped America” Series Starts
• John Phelan and the Sinking of the USS Oneida

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• In Your Mind’s Eye: Strange Mental Architecture to Help You Remember
• From Captivity to Capsized: Wild Rose O’Neal Greenhow
• Christine de Pizan, Professional Writer and Voice for Women in the Middle Ages

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Watch on Demand: Author Talks from LGBTQ+ Authors
• Watch on Demand: Hispanic Writers’ Author Talks at the National Book Festival
• At the National Gallery: The Poet Laureate and Poetry About Great Art

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Digitizing Over 9 Million Historical Record Pages and Counting
• Our Summer of Artificial Intelligence: Copyright Office Hosts Two Webinars on Copyright and AI
• #ICYMI: The Copyright Office Hears from Stakeholders on Important Issues with AI and Copyright

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Voices from the 761st Tank Battalion
• Homegrown Plus: Spaelimenninir’s Scandinavian Folk Music
• AFC Welcomes a New Trustee to the Board: Heather Obernolte

4 Corners of the World: International Collections at the Library of Congress

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• The Intersection between Texts and Textiles across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: a Display and Talk at the Library of Congress
• The PALABRA Archive Turns 80
• Reflections on Brazil-Africa Relations: Higher Education, Diplomacy and Development

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Preservation Intern Profile: Gabrielle Alongi
• A Blast to the Past: Testing Decades Old Predictions
• Nothing General About It: Ten Weeks in GCCS

Headlines and Heroes: Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print

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• Lets Talk Comics: SPX, SDCC, and more!
• You’re Invited! Announcing September Events.
• Back to School: Comic Book Stories

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Labors in Bronze
• Webinar Recording Now Available – African Americans in Business: Doing Historical Company Research
• Business Collections Orientation September 13

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs for Fall 2023
• Exploring Knowledge and Policy: My Journey as an Intern with the Kluge Center 
• Tom Cryer on How We Understand John Hope Franklin’s Legacy

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Chichén Itzá – Pic of the Week
• The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution
• An Interview with Louis Gilbert, Legal Research Fellow

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Be Like Duff McKagan and Experience Treasures in the Music Division’s Collections
• High Holiday Music in the Music Division
• Fish Tunes and Tales

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Lit Bits: Exploring Identity with Sonia Sotomayor
• Meet Meg Medina: Family Office Hours with the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
• Baseball Trivia: Summer Reading Part 3

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection: M—Henry Mancini
• Ich habe genug. Reflections on Bach’s Cantata BWV 82, Performed by Roderick Williams and the Bach Collegium Japan
• New BARD Additions: February 2023

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• The Sounds of Earth at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
• This Month at the Packard Campus Theater — October 2023
• This Coming Thursday and Friday at the Packard Campus Theater (Sept. 21 and 22, 2023)

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• 2023 CCDI Libraries, Archives, Museums Recipients: Boone County Public Library
• 2023 CCDI Higher Education Recipients: University of New Mexico
• 2023 CCDI Libraries, Archives, Museums Recipients: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Finding Pictures: Illustrating Civil War Medicine
• Vinyl Memories
• Shadowing a Midwife in Greene County, Georgia

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• Reflections on the 2023 Web Archiving Conference
• The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives
• Creating New Opportunities with Digital Strategy: An Interview with Margaret Gentry

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• Oppenheimer in the News: Newspaper Articles from the 1940s and 50s
• Audio-Visual Resources for Educators
• Using Primary Sources to Reveal What’s Missing from the Story

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• Five Questions for Manuscript Division Intern Lindsay Musil
• Say Yes to (Born-Digital) Access! New Online Resource Guide: Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material
• “Nothing that you do…can fail to interest me”: Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale Exchange Ideas on Women in Medicine

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Tracing General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
• More Places in Civil War History
• Lost at Sea: The Treasure Maps of the Library of Congress