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Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Want to make your own family cookbook? This post by Rachel Gordon dives deep into a late nineteenth-century cookbook crowdsourced from "famous folk" of the time as inspiration for a family craft.
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Want to make a paper poppy to commemorate Veteran's Day? This post shares instructions for how!
Posted in: Activities & Crafts
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
This post explores Library of Congress materials related to the pawpaw and provides a recipe for pawpaw ice cream that your family can make at home.
Posted in: Cooking, Native American History
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Young readers and families, Meg Medina, 8th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, invites you to join special one-on-one sessions as part of her Cuéntame! Let’s Talk Books platform. On Saturday, October 7, Meg will meet with a select number of families in short sessions occurring from 10:00 am until 4:30 pm. Tickets are required …
Posted in: Books & Author Programs, Events, For Kids, For Teens, Hispanic American History, Reading, Writing
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
This blog post by Junior Fellow Amanda Roberts highlights young people's involvement in the labor movement and profiles the activists Rose Schneiderman, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Marianna Costa.
Posted in: Researching, Women's History
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
One of the most absorbing and interesting things I get to do at the Library is to explore the amazing collections in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room (P&P) both onsite and online. Regardless of the topic I’m researching, there’s bound to be a wealth of relevant images in the P&P online catalog (PPOC) that …
Posted in: Researching, Sports
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
There’s great excitement in the Informal Learning Office as the Library of Congress gears up for this year’s National Book Festival (NBF), one of our biggest annual events. The festival takes place on Saturday, August 12, 2023, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Attendance is …
Posted in: Books & Author Programs, Events, Reading
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
What’s the most famous document in American history? Most of us would probably guess it’s the Declaration of Independence — which is exactly what pops up if you search that question online. The full story behind the creation and keeping of this remarkable text is a fascinating tale closely bound up with the Library …
Posted in: Civics & Government
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Marking Father’s Day with a cookout is as American as apple pie. As I was thinking about how to organize this most traditional of celebrations for Sunday, June 18th this year, I wondered about the custom itself. What’s the history of grilling, and of the backyard barbecue? When and why did “the man of the …
Posted in: Cooking