The following is a guest post by Jason Michael David Steinhauer, program specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Scholarly Programs. The John W. Kluge Center welcomes promising young scholars from the United Kingdom to conduct research at the Library of Congress. The scholars—all currently pursuing doctorate degrees—are funded by the Arts and Humanities …
The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room. Peter Armenti, frequent blogger here and a wonderful reference librarian, has dazzled a collection of literary librarians across the country. As the current cliché goes, he thinks outside the box to great …
Walk out the front door of the Library’s Jefferson Building, take a left and then a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. About eight blocks down you’ll reach the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital. The building is extraordinary, a noble looking brick structure with tall ceilings and oak paneling. Built at the end of …
The following guest post is by Andrew Weber, a legislative information systems manager at the Library of Congress. It is cross posted on the Law Library’s blog, In Custodia Legis. Earlier this week, I made a trip to the attic of the Thomas Jefferson Building to see the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library …
The following in a guest post by Trevor Owens, special curator for the Library of Congress Science Literacy Initiative, as part of a series of Library-wide blogs about Carl Sagan — to read more visit “Finding our Place in the Cosmos with Carl Sagan.” Today the Library celebrates the launch of a new digital collection, …
I am very lucky to be gainfully employed on behalf of literature. But as much as poems and stories are at the heart of my work time, mostly I’m focused on checking calendars and filling out forms and following up on e-mails. In fact, sometimes I need a reminder, or an excuse, to turn my …
Hello and happy 2014 from the Poetry and Literature Center. If you’re free this evening, please tune into the PBS NewsHour—the program will include the third segment from Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s signature project, “Where Poetry Lives,” a series of on-locations reports the Laureate is participating in with Jeffrey Brown, the NewsHour’s Chief Correspondent for …
The following is a guest post by Jason Michael David Steinhauer, program specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Scholarly Programs. The John W. Kluge Center welcomes promising young scholars from the United Kingdom to conduct research at the Library of Congress. The scholars—all currently pursuing doctorate degrees—are funded by the Arts and Humanities …
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation that declared “the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” Lincoln’s famous Thanksgiving Day proclamation was in large part undertaken at the urging of Sarah Josepha Hale—poet, novelist, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, and, lest we forget, author of the …