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Posted by: Erin Allen
Today, you best get out your peg leg, eye patch and practice your “arrrr’s” … it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! What started as a joke among a handful of friends in 1995 has become a widely recognized fun-for-the-sake-of-fun celebration, thanks in large part to a column written by Dave Barry in 2002. A …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Books, Collections, History, Manuscripts, Music, Today in History, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Today we celebrate …
Posted in: Collections, Education, History, Law Library, Manuscripts, Today in History, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Barbara A. Tenenbaum, specialist in Mexican culture in the Library of Congress Hispanic Division.) It seems a bit strange that in contrast to all the other “heritage” celebrations and recognitions, the one for Hispanic Americans starts in the middle of the month – September 15 …
Posted in: Education, Events, Hispanic American History, History, Today in History, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is the cover story written by Stephen Wesson, educational resource specialist in the Educational Outreach Division of the Office of Strategic Initiatives, for the September-October 2013 edition of the Library of Congress Magazine. You can download the issue in its entirety here.) Teachers and students are discovering new ways of learning with resources from …
Posted in: Education, Thomas Jefferson Building, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(Today, one of the Library of Congress blogs, Teaching with the Library of Congress, made an important announcement about its new tool in education outreach.) The Library of Congress Launches @TeachingLC, Its New Twitter Feed for K-12 Educators September 12, 2013 by Stephen Wesson Sharing ideas is a critical part of all great teaching, and now the …
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
With the Library of Congress National Book Festival just days away (it’s a week from this weekend, Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22, free of charge on the National Mall) we have a lot to share in addition to more than 100 best-selling authors for readers of all ages. One of the great stops …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Collections, Concerts, Copyright, Curators, Education, Events, Law Library, LC Web site, Libraries, Maps, Music, National Book Festival, Newspapers, Photos, Preservation, Social Media, Technology, Veterans History Project, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
Let’s take a look back at some of the posts populating the Library of Congress blogosphere in August. In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog “We’ll walk hand and hand someday” — Music and the March on Washington Music played a pivotal role in the March on Washington. Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business No Opera, …
Posted in: Blogging, Education, Law Library, Music, Photos, Poetry, Preservation, Science, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
August saw the opening of two new exhibitions at the Library of Congress. On Aug. 14, the Library exhibition “A Night at the Opera” debuted followed by “A Day Like No Other: 50 Years After the March on Washington” on Aug. 28. Both exhibitions received a variety of headlines. “They came to Washington, D.C. with …
Posted in: Exhibitions, News, Newspapers, Technology
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a story written by Lindsey Hobbs of the Library’s Preservation Directorate for the Library of Congress staff newsletter, The Gazette.) Pulp-fiction authors created some of the most enduring characters of any literary genre including Tarzan, detective Sam Spade, and the sword-wielding Zorro. The magazines that illustrated their exploits, unfortunately, haven’t fared as …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Manuscripts, Uncategorized