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By: Kaleena Black
In this summer-themed post, a former Teaching with Primary Sources intern at the Young Readers Center presents some historical primary sources related to hot dogs.
Posted in: Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
By: Brian McCurdy
For this week's NLS Music Notes Blog, Carter Rawson takes us through the incredible musical catalog of Frank Zappa.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
Today, on the final day of Pride, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, with the help of author Josiah Howard, looks back at one of its most recent and best-known additions–the Village People’s “YMCA.” Though, today, you’ll hear the track at everything from a school dance to a 50th anniversary party, it has also …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Stephen Winick
The American Folklife Center is happy to announce a two-part series of hour-long online Zoom presentations with live Q&A featuring recent and current Archie Green Fellows discussing the impact of the pandemic on their fieldwork experiences. We're calling the event Occupational Folklife and Fieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation, and the Future, Parts 1 & 2. Registration is required, but don't worry...you'll find the registration links down near the bottom of this post!
Posted in: Folklife Today
By: Holland Gormley
Drag performances are one of the many creative contributions to come out of the queer community. The history of drag within the copyright record runs deep, and many aspects of it are protected by copyright.
Posted in: Copyright
The ability to select how I will view a hefty set of search results in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog is one of the features I love about the catalog. There are three choices: List, Gallery, and Grid, offered at the upper right of the search results page. The default view is List view. …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Brian McCurdy
For this installment of "Song Stories", we are going to explore how James Agee's prose and Samuel Barber's music came together for "Knoxville: Summer of 1915."
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Cary O’Dell
This past Sunday, the great character actor Ned Beatty passed away at the age of 83. Over the years, several of Mr. Beatty’s films have been named to the Library’s National Film Registry including “Deliverance” (1972), “Nashville” (1975), “Network” (1976) and “Superman” (1978). His role in 1976’s “Network,” Paddy Chayefsky’s scathing indictment of the television …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Juliette Appold
Welcome to our new blog-series, in which we will feature American Music treasures available in the NLS Music Collection, starting with letter A and going through the alphabet. This blog will feature the "Arkansas Traveler" and its stories. We hope you enjoy our snapshots into American Music from A to Z in the NLS Music Collection.
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Andrew Breiner
The major institutions in American society are in a moment of crisis. From the branches of government to religious and civic organizations, the media, and political parties, these key foundations of American life are less respected, less trusted, and less involved in forming the character of individuals than at any point in our history. The …
Posted in: Insights