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Two women sit in white chairs on either side of a small glass coffee table on a stage in front of a National Book Festival backdrop

“LatinoLand” and Hispanic Heritage Month

Posted by: Maria Peña

Somber black and white and gray daguerrtype. Poe is wearing a suit with an ascot covering his nect, arms folded aross his chest. He is looking just to the right of the photographer with a forlorn expression.

The Season of Edgar Allan Poe: Autumn, Halloween and The Falling Darkness

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Movie poster for "El Norte," with an illustration of young man and woman at bottom, framed by a silhouette of a bird opening its wings into a blue sky overhead

Finding Latinos in Film

Posted by: Maria Peña

Color photo at sunset, with dark blue sky with clouds in the distance. In the foreground, an illulminated glass pyramid is flanked by classical french buildings.

The Great Pyramid of Pei

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Wide shot of a woman looking up at a giant Redwood tree. The photo only shows the base of the tree, which is nearly 75 feet in circumference.

Ada Limón & Poetry in the National Parks!

Posted by: Neely Tucker

A book cover featuring a 19th century head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in a dark suitcoat, turned sideways to face the artist. He has a serious gaze and a long handlebar moustache.

Richard Morris Hunt: Architect of the Gilded Age

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Half length photo of Louis Bayard seated at a desk in the Main Reading Room looking through two 19th century books.

Louis Bayard’s Novel Research at the Library

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Black and white shot of five Black boys dressed in suits and ties, seriously looking at the photographer, if front of a glass store front of a barbeque shop.

Ralph Ellison, Photographer

Posted by: Neely Tucker

The illuminated Capitol Building, shown from a distance, with a blue-black sky in the background.

Inventing the Capitol Building

Posted by: Neely Tucker