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Archive: February 2018 (14 Posts)

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Is the Sound of Children Actually Noise?

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

This post is coauthored by Jenny Gesley and Sayuri Umeda, foreign law specialists at the Global Legal Research Center. At some point or another, all of us have been exposed to children’s noise, be it as a parent or a neighbor, at the playground or at a school. And did we not wish for the noise …

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An Interview with Yichao Zhang, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Laney Zhang

The following is an interview with Yichao Zhang, a foreign law intern at the  Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in Changsha, a beautiful and energetic city located in the south central part of China. I received my bachelor of laws degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and my master of laws …

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The Latest Congress.gov Search Tip, Enhancements, and Most-Viewed Bills

Posted by: Robert Brammer

In January, the Congress.gov homepage received a new look and a new search form for the House Communications Collection. This month, we are bringing you the latest search tip, site enhancements, and most-viewed bills. Search Tip Adrienne recently featured this search tip on searching the House Communications Collection: A recent update to the Congress.gov homepage introduced a guided search form for House Communications, a data collection added to …

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Marriage and Divorce 19th Century Style

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Both of my parents were prodigious readers.  My father, the physicist, read histories, biographies, dictionaries, and the occasional mystery.  My mother read “literature.”  I remember Henry James and Jane Austen as two of her favorite authors, with W. Somerset Maugham as light relief.  I have inherited their passion for reading and last summer indulged my …

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Historical U.S. Reports Available Online

Posted by: Jennifer González

Following our releases of the Federal Register and United States Code collections, the Library of Congress is pleased to make available the decisions and orders from the United States Reports, from 1754 through 2003. The U.S. Reports is the collection of bound volumes that contain the official version of the U.S. Supreme Court opinions. The …

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An Interview with Catharina Schmidt, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

Today’s interview is with Catharina Schmidt, a foreign law intern working with me on research related to the laws of Germany and other German-speaking jurisdictions at the Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress.  Describe your background. I am originally from Germany and grew up with my younger sister in the city of Darmstadt, which is located near …

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More Historical Statutes at Large Available Online

Posted by: Jennifer González

The individual statutes for congresses 68 through 81 are now available on the Law Library of Congress website. This addition closes the gap for the years for which the Statutes at Large were not available on the Internet. As with the volumes for previous congresses, each of these statutes is tagged with tailored, descriptive metadata …