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Archive: March 2016 (3 Posts)

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Laser Beams and Avatars: Investigating Digitized Warfare Simulations in the Library of Congress Collections

Posted by: Travis Hensley

The following is a guest post by Janina Schupp, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. In a rural part of France, in close proximity to Paris, lies the town of Jeoffrécourt. A seemingly average municipality with riversides and playgrounds, the …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

For Women’s History Month 2016

Posted by: Mary Lou Reker

This blog is written in recognition of Women’s History Month, which in the U.S. is celebrated during March. For over two hundred years, the Library of Congress, the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States, has been gathering materials necessary to tell the stories of women in America and around the world. Library staff …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Richmond Pearson Hobson and the War Against Heroin

Posted by: Mary Lou Reker

The following is a guest post by Joe Thorogood, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at University College London and a current Economic and Social Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. Harry Anslinger was once America’s most prolific drug authority. From 1931-1963, Anslinger was head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics …