Water has far reaching impacts for our population, agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing, energy production, navigation, tourism, and the job market - we have collected resources that may be of interest.
Sean DiLeonardi, 2021 Junior Fellow, answers five questions about his work with the Science, Technology and Business Division’s “Arithmetic, Numeracy, Literacy and Imagination” project.
Explore Mexican American contributions to the U.S. economy using collections from the Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), the related individual worker reflections celebrated in the new America Works podcast, and the StoryCorps project, which has its archive at the Library of Congress.
The United States Atomic Energy Commission started an effort in 1947 to identify and develop domestic sources of uranium for purposes of national security, putting out advertisements and offering financial incentives, which created a uranium rush of those hoping to strike it rich.
Hannah Spring Pfeifer, one of the 2021 Library of Congress Junior Fellows in the Science, Technology and Business Division, reflects on her work this summer.