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By: Jan Grenci
The following is a guest post by Kate Fogle, Assistant Curator of Photography, Prints & Photographs Division. Mom. Simple to say, this monosyllabic version of ‘mother’ entered the American lexicon in the mid-1800s, and its ease of use has yet to waver, as moms throughout the U.S. can attest. It’s a palindrome that conveys comfort …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Wendi Maloney
Ada Limón, named the U.S. Poet Laureate last year, will serve two more years, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced, making the California native the third laureate to serve for as long as three years. Limón is composing a poem that will be engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper mission. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Posted in: Timeless
This blog post was taken down for review after concerns were raised that the author used content in several posts from other sources without providing appropriate citations. Headlines and Heroes apologizes both to any authors whose important work we did not appropriately recognize, and to its readers.
Posted in: Headlines & Heroes
By: Erika Gault
The grant year comes to an end for Hutson-Tillotson University awardees. A summary of awardees' major accomplishments is described. Their visit to the Library of Congress and highlights regarding student artists-in-residence projects are also discussed.
Posted in: Of the People
By: Cary O’Dell
An interview with the late Harry Belafonte.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Sasha Dowdy
Enjoy cherry blossoms all year: highlights and behind the scenes moments from "Cherry Blossoms: Sakura Collections from the Library of Congress," a book by the Library's own curators, Mari Nakahara and Katherine Blood
Posted in: Bookmarked
By: Neely Tucker
Midori, a classical violinist, made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11. She plays the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesu "ex-Huberman."
Posted in: Timeless
By: Neely Tucker
It is midafternoon on a recent weekday and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is driving across the Southwest, taking the call on speakerphone that his 1985 album, “Black Codes (From the Underground),” has been inducted into the 2023 class of the National Recording Registry. With endless desert spreading about behind and before him, he took a few minutes to talk about the album and its pointed political statement.
Posted in: Timeless
This is a guest post by Brandi Marulli, 2022 Librarian in Residence, Preservation Directorate. Support of the next generation of librarians and leaders is an integral part of the mission of The Library of Congress, with a multitude of people of all ages and backgrounds serving in 80 different programs. The Internship and Fellowship Programs …
Posted in: Guardians of Memory
By: Stephen Winick
Welcome back to Homegrown Plus! We're continuing with a program of Shaker Spirituals in Maine with singer Brother Arnold Hadd, composer Kevin Siegfried, and the choral group Radiance. Like other blogs in the Homegrown Plus series, this one includes a concert video, a video interview with one of the singers, and connections to Library of Congress collections. However, this interview was extensive, and therefore we're presenting it in two separate videos! We hope that together the videos will give you a deeper understanding of the tradition of Shaker Spirituals.
Posted in: Folklife Today