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Portrait of Beverley Diamond

Botkin Folklife Lecture Premiere: Beverley Diamond

Meet the Inaugural Cohort of Oral Historians for the COVID-19 American History Project

Green Man Connections: The Foliate Head

A photo of project co-leader Sandra Bell as Marie LaVeux, Vodou Priestess dressed in black and red as part of the J'ouvert celebration procession in Brooklyn New York

Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Long Live Brooklyn J’ouvert!

2018 National Heritage Fellows on-stage at the Library of Congress

AFC Announces New Research Guide on the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship

Two women stand by a bust of Thomas Jefferson

Botkin Folklife Lecture Premiere: Paddy Bowman and Lisa Rathje

Actor Morgan Freeman and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden look at a table filled with archival materials from the Veterans History Project while librarian Megan Harris looks at them across the table.

Voices from the 761st Tank Battalion

Five musicians play piano, upright bass, recorder, two fiddles, and a mandolin

Homegrown Plus: Spaelimenninir’s Scandinavian Folk Music

Text of image says Library of Congress, Folklife

AFC Welcomes a New Trustee to the Board: Heather Obernolte