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Detail illustration of a group of women wearing varying styles of wedding fashion.

Women’s Wedding Fashion: 1900-1910

Lets Talk Comics: SPX, SDCC, and more!

You’re Invited! Announcing September Events.

Three comic book covers showing characters going to school.

Back to School: Comic Book Stories

A colorful pattern of triangles and illustrations of writing implements, a pin, and a mug with writing overtop reading National Book Festival.

Finding Comic Books and Newspapers at the 2023 National Book Festival

Detail of an illustration from a newspaper of a family sightseeing in a convertible Studebaker-style car.

Summer Road Trip: National Parks

Screenshot of new Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room website featuring a photo of a person’s hand holding a white button emblazoned with “I love [heart image] Old News” just above a wooden desk surface with a wire basket in the background. Caption, “About this Reading Room” appears above photo. Photo is surrounded by main navigation menu above and sidebar menu to the left.

New Website! Read All About It!

A lemonade stand shaped like a lemon.

When Life Gives You Lemons: Summer Recipes from Historic Newspapers

Editorial cartoon depicting a "baseball player with a retail tag attached to his shoe labelling him an "honest baseball player" standing over home plate. A black inkblot appears behind him with the captions "Scandal Blot to the left and "Organized Baseball" to the right.

Embarrassing Baseball Scandals Fans Want to Forget