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Mapping the Year of Africa

October 4, 2023

With Love, Jimmy : The James Merrill Collection

October 4, 2023

Join Us on 10/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled "Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden"

October 4, 2023

Hispanic Heritage Month: Linda Ronstadt and Her "Canciones"

October 4, 2023

The Great Migration: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of Congress

October 3, 2023

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• An African American Family History Like No Other
• Missed You Much: The Library’s ASCAP Concert Bursts Back into Life
• “Books That Shaped America” Series Starts

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• With Love, Jimmy : The James Merrill Collection
• The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text
• In Your Mind’s Eye: Strange Mental Architecture to Help You Remember

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• Poet Laureate Explores the Library’s Historic PALABRA Archive
• Meg and Maria: How the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature connected with Sonia Manzano
• Like the Moon Surrounded by Stars: Classic Poetry from South Asia in the Library’s Collections

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Pushing Boundaries: Hispanic and Latin American Creators Who Redefine Success
• Digitizing Over 9 Million Historical Record Pages and Counting
• Our Summer of Artificial Intelligence: Copyright Office Hosts Two Webinars on Copyright and AI

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!
• AFC Announces New Research Guide on the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship
• Botkin Folklife Lecture Premiere: Paddy Bowman and Lisa Rathje

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

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• Shaping Latina/o Representation at the Movies with Junior Fellows, Scholars, and Filmmakers
• La Música en la Época de Cervantes
• The Intersection between Texts and Textiles across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: a Display and Talk at the Library of Congress

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Treating Photographs from the Nancy Pelosi Papers: A Photograph Conservation Intern’s Journey
• Preservation Intern Profile: Gabrielle Alongi
• A Blast to the Past: Testing Decades Old Predictions

Headlines and Heroes: Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print

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• Women’s Wedding Fashion: 1900-1910
• Lets Talk Comics: SPX, SDCC, and more!
• You’re Invited! Announcing September Events.

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Five Questions: Georgette Green, Business Reference and Research Specialist
• Labors in Bronze
• Webinar Recording Now Available – African Americans in Business: Doing Historical Company Research

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• The Kluge Center: The History of its Space
• Of Astronettes and Parastronauts
• On Young Black Scholars Navigating Historically White Places 

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Join Us on 10/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled “Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden”
• Law Library of Congress Report Discusses Tax and Investment Incentives
• Law Library at the National Book Festival – Pic of the Week

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Brazil de Mis Amores
• By the People: Transcribing Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
• Be Like Duff McKagan and Experience Treasures in the Music Division’s Collections

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Can You Solve It? Attend Family Mystery Day On October 21
• Pawpaw: The Story of America in One Fruit
• Junior Girl Scout Day at the Library of Congress

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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• Hispanic Heritage Month: Linda Ronstadt and Her “Canciones”
• This Thursday (October 5) at the Mary Pickford Theater at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
• Film Loans from the Library of Congress — October 2023

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!
• 2023 CCDI Libraries, Archives, Museums Recipients: Boone County Public Library
• 2023 CCDI Higher Education Recipients: University of New Mexico

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• Late 19th-Century Fall Fashions
• Finding Pictures: Illustrating Civil War Medicine
• Vinyl Memories

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• What’s new online at the Library of Congress – September 2023
• Reflections on the 2023 Web Archiving Conference
• The Web Archiving Team Answers Questions About the Web Archives

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• The Great Migration: A New Primary Source Set for Teachers from the Library of Congress
• Five Questions with Kelsey Beeghly, the 2023-2024 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress.
• The Library’s Online Research Center and Reading Room Pages: A New Look for Powerful Portals

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• A Stitch in Time: Sewing a 1920s Dress Inspired by Hazel MacKaye
• Five Questions for Manuscript Division Intern Lindsay Musil
• Say Yes to (Born-Digital) Access! New Online Resource Guide: Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Mapping the Year of Africa
• Tracing General Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
• More Places in Civil War History