Jessye Norman, Opera Legend, Dies at 74; Her Papers at Library of Congress
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jessye Norman, the legendary opera star, died Monday at the age of 74. Her papers are preserved at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Music
Archive: September 2019 (12 Posts)
“Who Am I?” New Mystery Photo Contest!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He’s back with another round, featuring some of Hollywood’s not-so-famous faces. Hello fellow photo sleuths! For your frustration, we submit to you nine more super-hard, super-obscure publicity stills that the Library is trying to identify. This new batch, …
Posted in: National Recording Registry, Photos
Edwidge Danticat: The Making of a Novelist
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Edwidge Danticat, the Haitian-born novelist who has become one of America’s most honored authors, told a crowd at the Coolidge Auditorium this week that she first felt the magic of storytelling as a child in Port-au-Prince.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival
Freud’s Last Days in Vienna as Nazis Approached
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The personal papers of Sigmund Freud at the Library of Congress have been digitized and are available online Included on the Library’s website for streaming are 11 home movies of Freud made between 1928 and 1939. Margaret McAleer, a historical specialist of modern America in the Library’s Manuscript Division, oversees the Library’s more than 100 collections …
Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, World War II
Cokie Roberts, a Legend at the Library, Dies at 75
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cokie Roberts, the longtime Washington journalist, author and broadcaster, has died at age 75. She was a devoted supporter of the LIbrary.
Posted in: National Book Festival, News
Civil War General McClellan: Calligrams Hiding in Plain Sight
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Manuscript Division, who always writes so well about her specialty, the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Researchers discover all kinds of materials in the George Brinton McClellan Papers that suit their varied research interests, and this collection is now available online through the …
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
The Constitution, Annotated: The Constitution Explained in Plain English
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This week the Library is launching the Constitution Annotated, a website that provides online access to a massive Senate document that has served for more than a century as the official record of the U.S. Constitution.
Posted in: News
Neil Patrick Harris Wows the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Neil Patrick Harris helps launch the Library's "National Book Festival Presents" series in grand fashion, drawing an overflow crowd on Sept. 11, 2019.
Posted in: Events, National Book Festival, Pic of the Week
Crime Novelist Laura Lippman: Empathy, Not Violence, Makes a Great Story
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Bestselling crime author Laura Lippman writes, in a short essay, on the importance of empathy in her fiction, not high body counts.
Posted in: Crime and Punishment, LCM