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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Suffrage songs were a significant part of the movement for the 19th Amendment, with novelty pieces such as "She's Good Enough to Have Your Baby and She's Good Enough to Vote with You" lending a sense of humor to the campaign.
Posted in: History, Music, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Veterans History Project hosts a special reunion of World War II veteran Code Girls, March 22, 2019. Codebreakers Nancy Tipton and Katherine Fleming chat with Liza Mundy, who wrote of their efforts in "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II."
Posted in: Pic of the Week, Veterans History Project, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
These audio documentaries in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress document the genius, and the impact, of some of most signficant recordings in American history.
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry, Preservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A never-seen-before collection of letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz offers new insight into the couple's art, marriage and ambitions during an eighteen-year span in which they were primary shapers of American Modernism. The letters were sent, independently of one another, to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, with whom O'Keeffe seemed especially close. The Library acquired them from a private collection. This is the first time they have been available to the public.
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Photos, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The National Recording Registry Class of 2019 includes Jay-Z, Sam & Dave, Cyndi Lauper and Robert F. Kennedy.
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry
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