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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Spiders have been spinning their webs across the planet for hundreds of millions of years. Without a doubt, we have forged a special relationship with these eight-legged wonders. One can find pictographs of spiders on the walls of the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, as well as references to spiders in mythology, creation …
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Zoology
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post authored by Elizabeth Gettins, a Digital Conversion Specialist for the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections (RBSC). She has worked on multiple RBSC digital collections through the years such as the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks and the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The United States Architect of the Capitol has embarked on a massive project to restore the Capitol’s dome that is slated to take years and cover the dome with scaffolding. This project inspired me to write a series of posts using the Library’s collections to explore a few of the firms and people who worked …
Posted in: Business, Washington and the Capitol
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
If you live west of the Mississippi, then you are no stranger to living with the threat of wildfires. Generally speaking, the western half of the country is more fire prone, compared to the more industrialized East, with large tracts of forest and grasslands on state and federal lands–national forests, state and national parks, and …
Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Weather