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Archive: June 2018 (11 Posts)

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Baseball Americana: Root, Root, Root’s Debut

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

Welcome to week six of our blog series for “Baseball Americana,” a major new Library of Congress exhibition opening June 29. This is the sixth of nine posts – we’re publishing one each Thursday leading up to the opening. Matthew Barton, a record-sound curator in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division contributed this …

Posted in: Baseball, Exhibitions, Music

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

World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. “The place: a wine vault, somewhere in hell – torn, blood streaked, shell plowed France.” – Joel T. Boone, June 28, 1918 By the time he wrote those words to his wife, Joel T. Boone, a Navy doctor assigned to the …

Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Manuscripts