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Illustration depicts uniforms and weapons used during the 1779 to 1783 period of the American Revolution by showing four soldiers in blue jackets standing in an informal group.

A Functional Fashion: Uniforms of the U.S. Army

Posted by: Sean Bryant

E Ridley & Sons 1887 on a banner across the top right with a bust of a man on the top left. Below a figure vaguely dressed as a Roman centurion representing trade holds a feather “sword” representing Trade Journalism confronts a man with and umbrella “sword” in a check jacket carrying a box of Inferior Goods of the Drummer and in between is a woman in a lavender dress with a Ridley’s Fashion Magazine with some images from the magazine; across the bottom from left to right is a person on a horse, a train, and US mail horse-drawn carts in front of Ridley’s.

Ridley’s on Grand

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Drawing of an interpretation of David Bushnell's Turtle submarine, with cut-out showing a pilot inside.

David Bushnell’s Secret Submarine of the American Revolution

Posted by: Claire D’Mura

Interior of a chemistry lab, looking from balance room to the front entrance.

America 250: Business Leaders from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

Image shows a tree with the branches devoted to different subjects. The text to the right side says: "The Library is divided into 44 chapters. The system of classification was originally prepared by president Jefferson, but has been modified since. It is based upon Lord Bacon's division of knowledge, the subjects classed according to the faculties of the mind employed on them."

Paul Otlet: Classifying Information, Counting Books, and the Internet

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Reading Between the Lines: Following the Evolution of ESG through the Library of Congress Collections

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

Felled trees at the Great Dismal Swamp

“Wetlands, Ecology, and Landscapes of Power: A Human History of the Great Dismal Swamp” Event on April 30

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

Photograph shows back view of well-dressed women wearing hats, one holding an umbrella, seated in bleachers at Kentucky Derby race course.

The Style Stakes: How the Kentucky Derby Shaped American Fashion, April 23 Special Event

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

William Playfair: Statistical Graphics, Scandal and a New Library Acquisition

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff