Cherokee National Holiday
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post describes the origins of the Cherokee National Holiday.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Law Library, Native Americans
Category: Law Library
An Interview with Patience Tyne, Junior Fellow
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today’s interview is with Patience Tyne, a Junior Fellow in Collection Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I’m the oldest of five children and my permanent home is in Caldwell, New Jersey. My siblings and I were homeschooled through high school. I believe that my homeschooling has allowed me to thoroughly pursue …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
On the Shelf: LGBT Pride Month
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Post encouraging readers to check out the Library's LGBT resources and advertising an event to be held at the Library for LGBT Pride Month
Posted in: Collections, Event, Law Library, LGBTQ
Poetic Justice
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The following is a guest post by Brandon Fitzgerald, project manager of a Law Library staffing contract, writer and student of poetry and literature. Upon first reading the news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent passing, I recalled a 2015 study crowning him the most literary justice among current justices for citing notable authors 39 times …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing: James Weldon Johnson and National Poetry Month
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
For National Poetry Month, we remember James Weldon Johnson, an educator, lawyer, statesman, poet, and song-writer.
Posted in: African American History, Law Library
Anniversary of the Radio Act of 1927, The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
As new technologies emerge, the federal government works to ratchet up its regulations. If the technology is sufficiently pervasive, the government creates regulatory arms for it. Radio is one of the earlier examples of this cycle of technological innovation and its regulation. Before 1927, the Commerce Department regulated radio, but the department’s control over the …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
On the Shelf: Fire codes
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
On December 30, 1903, a fire broke out in the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois when a broken arc light ignited a muslin curtain. The theatre burned to the ground and over 600 theatre occupants, more than two-thirds women and children, died of asphyxiation, burns, or trampling. It remains one of the deadliest fires in …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
On the Shelf: Caribbean Collection Items
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The Caribbean is a term for the area that comprises nearly twenty-five sovereign territories, overseas departments, and dependencies in the Caribbean Sea basin. The U.N. Statistical Division and the CIA World Factbook recognize the Caribbean as a distinct geographical subregion for statistical and economic purposes. Historically, the Caribbean has not generated much legal material compared …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s Swearing-In to the Supreme Court
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Blog post about the legal career of Thurgood Marshall
Posted in: African American History, Education, Law Library, Pic of the Week