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Archive: May 2018 (17 Posts)

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Baseball Americana: Baseball’s Magna Carta

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Welcome to week five of our blog series for “Baseball Americana,” a major new Library of Congress exhibition opening June 29. This is the fifth of nine posts – we’re publishing one each Thursday leading up to the opening. As a bonus, we’re counting down the innings to the exhibit’s launch by asking baseball fans …

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Linking Letters with Lyrics: “Hamilton” Songs Draw on Original Library Documents

Posted by: Brett Zongker

This post is reprinted from “Brilliant Broadway,” the May–June issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The entire issue is available online. It started with hearing a catchy song on a new soundtrack—and then another. Soon Kaleena Black was hooked on one of Broadway’s biggest shows. And yet Black, an education specialist at the Library …

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The John W. Kluge Prize: Drawing on Jeffersonian Traditions

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by John Haskell, director of the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. After an extensive selection process, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will announce the winner of the 2018 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity on June 12. The privately endowed prize, which celebrates the impact …

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Japanese-America’s Pastime: Baseball

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. In recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, he explores the role of baseball in the nation’s Japanese-American community. For more about baseball, check out our blog series counting down the weeks until the June 29 opening of “Baseball Americana,” a …

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Leonard Bernstein Centennial: The Mind of a Maestro

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by Mark Horowitz of the Music Division. It is reprinted from the May–June issue of LCM, the Library of Congress magazine. Titled “Brilliant Broadway,” the entire issue is available online. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, the Library has dramatically expanded – by some 2,400 items …

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On Exhibit: Herblock Looks at 1968

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division. She highlights three of the 10 new cartoons installed this spring the Herblock Gallery of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. New drawings from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection are introduced into …

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Pic of the Week: Strads in the House

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Library of Congress photographer Shawn Miller captured this stunning photograph of 10 Stradivari instruments – and Italy’s esteemed Quartetto di Cremona – during a special “Strad Shoot” in the Great Hall of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building on May 11. The occasion was a prelude to a concert that evening by the Quartetto, co-presented by …

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Baseball Americana: Playing Behind Barbed Wire

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Welcome to week three of our blog series for “Baseball Americana,” a major new Library of Congress exhibition opening June 29. This is the third of nine posts – we’re publishing one each Thursday leading up to the opening. This week, in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we’re highlighting Library collections that document …