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25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2005

April 18, 2025

Balti-more or Less That Way: How a Port City Moved

April 18, 2025

Congress's Role in the Creation of the White House Easter Egg Roll

April 18, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)

April 17, 2025

250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

April 17, 2025

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• Book(s) Burning: The Library Survived Two 19th-Century Fires
• College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
• Take a “Fast Car” to the 2025 National Recording Registry

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• The Not-So-Great Gatsby
• A Little Note About A Giant Bible
• Early Owners of an Eliot Algonquian Bible

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2005
• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2004
• The Great Gatsby Turns 100!

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• Looking Back at the First African American Winners of an Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar
• Inside the Copyright Office’s Report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability
• Lifecycle of Copyright: 1929 Works in the Public Domain

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• The Parachute Dresses of World War II: A Story of Resilience, Romance and Resourcefulness
• Chock It Up to Murder (Part One): The Incident
• Aloha! Community Collections Grant Project Unearthing the Lost Songs of Kohala Is Live and Online

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

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• Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)
• Fifty New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for National Poetry Month
• Exploring the spread of Islam in Somalia

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• 125 years of binding, Part Two: The Library Binding Branch
• Celebrating the Mummers Parade: A Day at the Mummers Museum
• A Close Look at Caterpillars: Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis Meets Modern Science

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• 250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
• AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
• AHHA Intern Spotlight: Jala Robertson

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Early Mercantilism and French Silk Worms: A New Rare Book Acquisition at the Library
• New Recording Available: Naa Oyo Kwate on Fast Food History
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s L’Aérophile! Recording Women’s Mark on Early Flight

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes Costica Bradatan
• Kluge Center Welcomes Shannon Mattern and Nelson Tebbe
• Humanistic Research and Machine Learning: Exploring Editorial Cartoons with Newspaper Navigator

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Congress’s Role in the Creation of the White House Easter Egg Roll
• Law Library Publishes New Report on Permitted Uses of Antimicrobials in Animal Agriculture
• Upcoming US Law Webinars – May 2025

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• Now Streaming: Leslie Odom Jr., Lectures, and Artist Conversations
• Two Women Composers, Two Commissions
• A Note from President Lincoln

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• National Poetry Month: Exploring Out Your Window and Out of this World
• Animal Antics for April Fools’ Day
• Celebrate Japanese Culture with Family Day on April 5

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions: February and March 2025
• New BARD Additions: January 2025
• New BARD Additions: December 2024

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• This Thursday (7:00 PM April 17) at the Mary Pickford Theater, Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
• Behind the Scenes of “Apollo 13” with Ron Howard
• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (April 18 – 19, 2025)

Of the People: Widening the Path

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• Community Collections Grants Spotlight: Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora: Los Pleneros de la 21
• Maya Freelon Reclaims Childhood for Enslaved Children at Historic Stagville
• Recording of CCDI’s Fall 2024 Awardee Project Celebration Now Available Online 

Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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• The Greatest Show on Mud: Edwin Martin’s Photographs of Traveling Circuses
• Finding Pictures: Postcards – Wish You Were Here!
• Whimsy and Commerce: Magical Beings in the U.S. Patent Office Trademark Collection

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• DC Chapter of AI4LAM Holds First Meeting
• Collections Digitization Enhances Access: An Interview with Hanna Fogle
• Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• The Congressional Record as a Primary Source for Teaching About the Cold War
• The Intelligent Vegetable Martians are Coming! Analyzing Historical Newspapers to Practice Information Literacy Skills
• Soviet Union Country Study: Is This a Primary Source?

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• An American Tourist in Nazi Germany
• Made at the Library: Shopping All the Way to the Woods with Rachel Gross
• Intern Spotlight: The Post-Conquest Life of Hernando Cortés in the Spanish Foreign Copying Program Records at the Library of Congress

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Balti-more or Less That Way: How a Port City Moved
• Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps
• Augustus Koch’s Views From Above