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Posted by: Megan Halsband
It’s hard to believe that our blog, Headlines and Heroes, is turning two! Since May 4th, 2018 we’ve had a chance to share some of our favorite comic finds, highlights, and the just plain cool with you, and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about them. Although the …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This piece was co-written by my colleague Megan Halsband. To celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding, on Friday, April 24, 2020, the Library of Congress is highlighting some of the many gifts and resources we have been able to provide because of your contributions. Your creativity and knowledge help us build our Web Archiving collections …
Posted in: African American History, Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents, Holidays, Newspapers, Web Archives, World War I
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Good news everyone – the first webcomics dataset is available here!!! Wait, what? As a part of the Library’s work to explore our web archives, my colleagues at LC Labs and the Web Archiving Team have made a dataset generated from content harvested from the Library of Congress’s web archive of qwantz.com (Dinosaur Comics!). So …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Arlene Balkansky
Events in Rosa Parks' life are chronicled in newspapers and comic books and reinforce her well-justified iconic status. At times, though, their simplified coverage perpetuates the myth of Parks as the quiet seamstress who was too tired to stand to give up her seat.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Malea Walker
Take a look at some of the amazing items that we acquired during 2019! From a 300 year-old newspaper to rare comic books.
Posted in: African American History, Comic Books, Holidays, Newspapers
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Dr. Daniel Peretti, Assistant Professor of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, is the author of “Superman in Myth and Folklore” (University Press of Mississippi, 2017), as well as other essays on folklore, myth, and popular culture. His current research focuses on Santa Claus, ritual, and the traditions of Christmas. Here Dr. Peretti answers …
Posted in: Comic Books, Holidays, Let's Talk Comics
Posted by: Malea Walker
From falling furniture to forest fires, the U.S. government works to get information to citizens on the best ways to be safe and prepared. But in a society with overwhelming amounts of media, how do you get information to the people who need it most? You make it go viral.
Posted in: Comic Books, Government Documents
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The following guest post was also written by Marissa Ball, Head of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section in the Researcher and Reference Services Division; Peter Armenti, a reference specialist in the Researcher and Reference Services Division; and Ashley Cuffia, a science reference specialist in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. On October 24, 2019, …
Posted in: Comic Books, Crime, Mystery
Posted by: Megan Halsband
From the beginning comic books have published war stories and adventures, profiling every branch of the military and visually portraying every aspect of modern warfare. Even before the United States entered World War II, Captain America fought Adolph Hitler on the cover of Captain America no. 1 (1940). Contemporary comics on war and the …
Posted in: Comic Books