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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.
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Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For the past three decades or so, Thomas Doherty has taught and written about films, television and Hollywood — a lot. An American studies professor at Brandeis University with a special interest in classical Hollywood, he has written seven books touching on topics including teen movies, censorship, Hitler and McCarthyism. His latest book, “Show Trial: …
Posted in: Collections, Film, Researcher Stories
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: Carla D. Hayden
Less than half a year ago, I announced that the Library of Congress is providing Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public for the first time. Since the launch of the CRS reports website, crsreports.congress.gov, the Library has made available all new or updated reports. Created for Congress by experts in CRS, the reports …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, LC Web site
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
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For years now, Saundra Rose Maley has encouraged her English composition students at Montgomery College in Montgomery County, Maryland, to think of themselves as detectives. The setting for their investigations: the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Their task: to scout out primary sources for novel or surprising details about historical figures and write …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Women's History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Aisha Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin’s niece, reads from a recently released edition of “Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood,” the only children’s book Baldwin wrote, at a Library of Congress panel discussion on Feb. 28, 2019. Karefa-Smart, a D.C.-based author, wrote the book’s afterword. The book was originally written in 1971, when Baldwin was …
Posted in: Books, Events, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This post is republished from the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The entire issue is available online. In his classic novel “Native Son,” Richard Wright tells the story of a poverty-stricken young black man who takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family in Chicago, accidentally kills the daughter …