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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
For the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Games I wrote about an exhibit I created of ‘classic’ winter sport and game books (1800-1950) in the post He Shoots, He Scores: A Love of Winter Games. In this post I mentioned that the Library has been involved in digitization of its pre-1923 U.S. monograph imprint collection. Over the …
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Eventually Prohibition - and the violence surrounding it - wore out its welcome. By 1930 the anti-Prohibition forces had strengthened their hand in Congress and the need for tax revenues at the federal level during the Depression hastened Prohibition's demise.
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post from Trevor Owens, Special Curator for the Library of Congress Science Literacy Initiative and Digital Archivist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Most Americans know Carl Sagan best as a public figure and science communicator. Alongside those roles, he taught college courses for more than thirty years, first at …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Peter Drucker’s groundbreaking work turned management theory into a serious discipline. Often called the father of modern management, Drucker penned numerous influential works on organization and management Bruce Rosenstein, in this his second book based on the late Drucker’s wisdom, demonstrates once again that Drucker’s teachings go beyond the discipline of management to principles for …
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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following was originally published on the John W. Kluge Center’s RSS newsfeed. Inside Adams is republishing it since this event and topic might be of interest to our science readers. On Tuesday, January 28, at 4 p.m., The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress will host a public conversation between its outgoing …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos