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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Author Monica Hesse answers questions about her bestselling books, including "American Fire" and "Girl in the Blue Coat."
Posted in: National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
By the People, the Library’s crowdsourcing transcription project, is calling on volunteers to complete 1,000 pages from the “Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote” campaign before Monday, August 19th.
Posted in: By the People, Manuscripts, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free photographs feature a collection from hotels, motels and inns.
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The letters, diaries, speeches and other personal papers of President James A. Garfield are now online at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Former Little League World Series star Mo'Ne Davis meets with local DC Force team in the Baseball Americana exhibit. Photo: Shawn Miller.
Posted in: Baseball, Exhibitions, Pic of the Week, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representataives, writes about the long struggle for women's suffrage in an essay from the Library of Congress Magazine.
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, Exhibitions, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly preserved and digitized, making it available to readers online after years of delicate work.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's 2019 Junior Fellows Summer Internship Program showed off their most significant findings and research this week in a display that is the annual highlight of the 10-week program.
Posted in: Junior Fellows Program, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The LIbrary has several items documenting the dark hold that killers such as Charles Manson have kept on American culture and imagination.
Posted in: Crime and Punishment, Newspapers, Photos