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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following guest post is by Amber Paranick, a librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room. Amber collaborated with us before showcasing early U.S. articles related to ice hockey from the Chronicling America database in the post “King of Winter Sports.” The history of the Thanksgiving holiday can be traced back to 1621, …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Every Thanksgiving people stock up on the food and ingredients they will need for their feasts. Because retailers want shoppers, and their goal is to let people know what they have and what deals are to be had, special fliers are run in newspapers and commercials are aired on television. This advertisement from the Rock …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
...we thought it might be interesting to explore what the soldiers ate during that war and how they celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system- Percy Bysshe Shelley. When I asked our culinary specialist, Alison Kelly, for advice for a Thanksgiving blog post she eagerly shared with me The Vegetarian Thanksgiving …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
With Halloween trick-or-treating right around the corner, it's a great time to take a sweet peek in the Confectioners Journal, a trade journal for the candy industry.
Posted in: Business, Cookbooks and Food
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Potatoes at the Library? How to get started with research on the world's most exemplary vegetable.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
This post continues the story of Bill, WWII glider pilot, and using Library of Congress material to learn more about his experience on D-Day.
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Military science, World War II
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The quote “Advertising has a thousand principles, one purpose, and no morals” caught my eye and I had to know more about it, the man who wrote it, and how it fit into the history of advertising in America.
Posted in: Advertising, Business
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The Library offers Saturday orientations/classes and sometimes Business Reference takes their turn. Instead of doing our general Business Research Orientation, we are teaching So…you want to research old companies at the Library of Congress. We have given this class before and because there was interest, we are doing it again on November 30. While the …
Posted in: Business