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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Today’s interview is with Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I grew up in Virginia and went to college and law school there. I studied Ancient Greek and Latin as an undergraduate, went to law school and practiced law, and then …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Jim Martin, senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Jim has written some of our most popular posts over the years including The Articles of Confederation. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Hapsburg presumptive heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library, World War I
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Home with a cold this spring, I was re-reading a mystery novel which centered in part around the fate of a British officer in World War I. In the novel, the officer had been executed for cowardice which made me begin to think about movies which portray incidents of military justice. Although fellow staff members …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
On July 6, 1553, Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, died at the age of fifteen. Edward had been king since 1547 when he had succeeded to the throne at the age of nine. When Henry died in 1547, he had been married six times and had three children. His marital career is …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
If Memorial Day marked the beginning of summer when I was young, then summer marked the time when the family would visit our local national parks and monuments such as Bandelier and Carlsbad Caverns. Indeed, summer marks the time when millions of Americans visit state and national parks, forests and monuments. June 30 of this …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Anne Guha who was an intern with the Law Library’s Public Services Division this spring and is now working in Public Services for the summer. As I’m collecting degrees (and acronyms) throughout my 20s and 30s, moving from my joint-degree J.D./M.A. (Juris Doctor / Masters of Arts) at the …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Throughout the year, the Library of Congress provides information about a number of commemorative observances. May is always a busy month with the Asian/Pacific American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage observances while in the Law Library we also observe Law Day. In June we observe a more recently added commemorative observance for Lesbian Bisexual Gay …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
As an adult, I still enjoy reading children’s books. Indeed, now that I am an adult, I probably read more children’s books than I did as a kid–when I was trying to persuade the authorities to let me read adult biographies of the Tudor monarchs. One of the reasons I enjoy reading children’s books so much is …
Posted in: Congress, In the News, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by Matthew Braun, senior legal reference specialist at the Law Library of Congress. At the end of May, I will be leaving the Law Library of Congress, after a little more than five years on the staff, to become the Head of Electronic Resources and Computer Services at the …
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