Notice
Due to the temporary shutdown of the federal government beginning midnight, October 1, all Library of Congress buildings are closed and all public events are canceled until further notice. More.

Top of page

Archive: November 2013 (2 Posts)

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

The Sound of Drums

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

On Friday, November 22, 1963, the students in Mrs. Maxwell’s third-grade class at Sabin Elementary School in southwest Denver got a singular history lesson: the news came in that President John F. Kennedy had been murdered. Janet Maxwell, a popular young instructor who taught 25 kids reading, math, science and history by turns, was trying …

Posted in: Capitol Hill, Education, Events, History, Today in History, Uncategorized, Washington DC

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

You’ve Heard The Phrase “100-Year Storm?”

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

As the world turns its sympathy toward the Philippine islands devastated, just days ago, by the largest typhoon in recorded history, a fascinating fact has emerged and moved explosively across the Internet: Just over a century ago, those same islands – indeed that same nearly destroyed town on the island of Leyte, Tacloban – were …

Posted in: Collections, Education, Events, LC Web site, Newspapers, Preservation, Uncategorized