Pic(s) of the Week: Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn… Special Edition!
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
Archive: 2019 (163 Posts)
Remembering Toni Morrison
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Guy Lamolinara of the Library’s Center for the Book. The loss of the incomparable writer Toni Morrison leaves a gaping hole in the literary landscape. Fortunately for us, before she died on Monday, she filled the world with prose that touched millions of readers worldwide. Through her novels, children’s …
Posted in: Books, National Book Festival
Now Online! The Love Letters of James and Lucretia Garfield
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
Pic of the Week: Mo’Ne Davis Edition
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
Guest Column: Nancy Pelosi on Women’s Suffrage Anniversary
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
Now Online! The Gandhara Scroll, a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Text of Early Buddhism
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
Pic of the Week: Junior Fellows Edition
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
Charles Manson and “Once Upon a Time….in Hollywood”
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
Eisner Winner! Library’s “Drawn to Purpose”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists," a lavishly illustrated study of the field written by Library curator Martha H. Kennedy, won the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book at San Diego's Comic-Con International this weekend. It was published by Library in association with the University of Mississippi Press.
Posted in: Books, Exhibitions, Women's History