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Posted by: Neely Tucker
A conservator at the Library believes she has identified John Wood, an almost forgotten government photographer, as the man who took an iconic image of the first Lincoln inauguration.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Photos, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Insights from the Library's holdings into Season 3 of "The Crown."
Posted in: Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Library curator John Hessler's new book, “Collecting for a New World: Treasures of the Early Americas,” explores the treasures of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas.
Posted in: Collections, Jay I. Kislak Collection, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's "The Exquisite Corpse" project, a tag-team YA story told by a number of children's authors and illustrators, turns 10 this year.
Posted in: Education, National Library Service (NLS)
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Peggy Lundeen Johnson is the great-great-granddaughter of Samuel J. Gibson. He fought for the Union during the Civil War and was incarcerated in the Confederate military prison in Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864. While there, he kept a daily log of his experience. Johnson was unaware of the diary until she encountered it on the Library’s …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library's scroll from Gandhara, an early Buddhist center along the borders of modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, is one of the Library's most precious treasures.
Posted in: Preservation, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Reginald Scot's 1584 book, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" is one of the most influential books on magic ever published. The Library of Congress has a first edition.
Posted in: Books, Rare Book and Special Collections, Shakespeare
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Harry Houdini's collection at the Library of Congress shows that he worked so extensively with police that he wrote a handbook on how smart criminals worked. It was called, "The Right Way to Do Wrong."
Posted in: LCM
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In September, the John W. Kluge Center welcomed Simon Martin, anthropologist and specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing, as the second Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.
Posted in: Jay I. Kislak Collection, Kluge Center