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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Significant radio broadcasts, speeches, and oral histories that are featured in the National Recording Registry's archives of
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A preview of how the National Recording Preservation Board makes their annual 25 selections for the National Recording Registry.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Taking to the Constitution Hall stage during the Gershwin Prize concert the evening of March 13, co-honoree Gloria Estefan and her daughter, Emily, sang a duet of “Embraceable You,” one of the Gershwin brothers’ standards, near the show’s end. The concert was taped for broadcast on PBS on May 3, 2019.
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Giselle Aviles, the 2019 Archaeological Research Associate in the Geography and Map Division, is delving into the treasures of the William and Inger Ginsberg Collection of Pre-Columbian Textiles and the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the History and Archaeology of the Early Americas. Aviles is undertaking an ethnographic analysis of Andean textiles and Mesoamerican ceramics, tracing and unfolding their stories. Here, she writes about feathers being used in ceremonial art in South American societies before the arrival of Europeans.
Posted in: Maps
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden testifies before the Senate Rule Committee, March 6, 2019.
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The family of Thomas Michael Martin, a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army who was killed in Iraq, recently donated a collection of his papers that documented his life and service to the Veterans History Project.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project