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Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Simón Bolívar achieved the impossible. He led the successful liberations of six Latin American countries, navigating …
Posted in: History, Latin America
Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. On the battlegrounds of the US Civil War, both sides relied on a surprising weapon—the telegraph. …
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Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Imagine waking up behind the wheel of a truck hurtling down a winding road. You have …
Posted in: Astrobiology
Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Close to 60,000 loyalists, about one in forty of the American population, left the newly formed country …
Posted in: History, United States
Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. With a death toll of 1.5 million people, the Kazakh famine of 1930-1933 was one of …
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Posted by: Lillian Williams
This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Historian, civil rights activist, and public intellectual John Hope Franklin (1915 – 2009) transformed the field …
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Posted by: Lillian Williams
2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Center was founded on October 5, 2000, thanks to the generous gift of $60 million from John W. Kluge, Metromedia’s former president, philanthropist, and chairman of the Madison Council. Kluge, in collaboration with then-Librarian of Congress James H. …
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