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This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (June 27 - 28, 2025)

June 23, 2025

Tracking "Tartary" on Western Maps

June 20, 2025

“Ain't No Sunshine:” A Tribute to Bill Withers

June 20, 2025

Jack Rescues the Princess from the Tiger: A Bahamas Jack Tale

June 20, 2025

25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2014

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Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress

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• Angela Napili’s “Charmed Life” at the Congressional Research Service
• Indigenous History Kept Alive at the Library
• Sir Francis Drake & The Elizabethan World

Bibliomania: Rare Books & Special Collections

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• Robert Motherwell’s Illustrated Ulysses
• Bound to be Beautiful: the Warburg Book of Hours on Exhibit
• If You Print It, They Will Come: Baseball’s Early Years

Bookmarked: Celebrating Contemporary Books & Writers at the Library

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• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2014
• Summer Reading Program Kickoff with Mac Barnett
• 25 Years of the National Book Festival: Highlights from 2013

Copyright: Creativity at Work

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• A.I., Art, and Copyright: The Human Element That Makes All the Difference
• 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

Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project

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• Jack Rescues the Princess from the Tiger: A Bahamas Jack Tale
• Homegrown Foodways Film Premiere: Bayous, Buddha, and Padaek: Southern Louisiana’s Lao Foodways
• Ensemble Sangineto from Italy: Homegrown Plus

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

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• Highlights of Ainu and Ezochi Rare Materials at the Library of Congress: Takeshirō Matsuura, 19th-Century Humanist Explorer of Ezochi
• Echoes of al-Andalus at the Library of Congress
• Now Online: The WW1-Era POW Camp Newspaper “Hindostan” in Hindi and Urdu

Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection

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• Unfolding History: Conserving Papyrus
• Preservation in Motion: Moving the Library’s Card Catalog
• 125 years of Binding, Part Three: Annexed

Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print

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• 250 Years Ago: The Battle of Bunker Hill
• Improving Machine-Readable Text for Newspapers in Chronicling America
• 250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business

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• Insurance: A Financial Safety Net
• Upcoming Webinar: An Introduction to the Technical Reports Collection on June 12
• Major R. R. Wright and the Citizens & Southern Bank

Insights: Scholarly Work at the Kluge Center

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• Kluge Center Welcomes Michael Auslin
• Kluge Center Welcomes Costica Bradatan
• Kluge Center Welcomes Shannon Mattern and Nelson Tebbe

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

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• Etta Haynie Maddox: First Woman Licensed to Practice Law in Maryland – Pic of the Week
• New Report on Indonesia’s Civic Space Legal Framework Published
• Loving Day – Pic of The Week

In The Muse: Performing Arts at the Library of Congress

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• A One-Handed Marvel: Erich Korngold’s Left Hand Piano Concerto
• New Music Weekend at the Library of Congress
• New Research Guide: James Reese Europe Resources at the Library of Congress

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope: Resources for Kids & Families

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• Kids Are Researchers Too: Celebrating One Year of Family Days at the Library of Congress
• June Family Day: Celebrating Family and Home
• A Teen “Take”: Solving Mysteries With Science and History

NLS Music Notes: Resources for the Blind & Print Disabled

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• New BARD Additions: May 2025
• New BARD Additions – April 2025
• New BARD Additions: February and March 2025

Now See Hear!: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

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• This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (June 27 – 28, 2025)
• “Ain’t No Sunshine:” A Tribute to Bill Withers
• This Coming Month at the Packard Campus — July 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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• Finding Pictures: Shawn Walker – Reflections
• The Floral Clock of Detroit
• Our Best Resource for Historic American Architecture, Engineering, and Landscapes

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

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• Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive
• New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats
• What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2025

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

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• The Many Emotions of Purchasing a Liberty Bond: Understanding Persuasive Posters
• Just One Day: Using a Newspaper Front Page as a Window to Inquiry and Research
• Women’s Suffrage: Analyzing Conditional Arguments in Historical Primary Sources

Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

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• A Historian at War: The Unpublished Guadalcanal Diaries of Herbert Christian Laing Merillat
• Nothing Happens in Washington without a Purchase Order: William J. Rhees and Thaddeus Lowe’s Balloons, 1861.
• More Walt Whitman Manuscripts Ready for Crowdsourced Transcription

Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress

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• Tracking “Tartary” on Western Maps
• Out of This World – Vopell’s Exquisite Armillary Sphere
• “Scenery Unsurpassed”: Real Estate Promotion Through Maps