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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
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress is using the Story Maps platform to tell multi-media stories.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has featured some of its best historical photographs on a Flickr page for years, with more than 34,000 images in more than 45 albums. If you haven’t checked it out before, we hope you’ll take a minute now. Delights abound. Readers have flocked to see the 1930s-40s in Color album, with more than 3.9 million …
Posted in: Concerts, Pic of the Week, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Girls Who Code meets with several members of Congress in the Library for a bipartisan discussion on how to bring more women into careers in tech.
Posted in: Pic of the Week, Technology, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of Jim Bouton, the former Major League pitcher whose 1970 memoir, "Ball Four," became one of the most celebrated American books of the 20th Century, are now at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Baseball, Books, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's "Free to Use and Reuse" sets features copyright-free prints and photographs for public use.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Saxophonist Chris Potter talks about the legacy of jazz great BIlly Strayhorn, whose papers are now at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Music
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post from Amber Paranick, who does great work over at the Headlines & Heroes Blog, which chronicles the Library’s vast collection of newspapers and comics. Here, she looks at how one of the seminal moments in gay rights — the Stonewall Rebellion, which took place 50 years ago today — was …
Posted in: Newspapers, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Science, Technology and Business Division hosted the art quilt display, "Inspired by Endangered Species: Animals and Plants in Fabric Perspectives," putting an array of brilliantly colored quilts on display.
Posted in: Pic of the Week, Science, Technology