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Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post by Marie Arana, the Library’s Literary Director. In it, she explains how the National Book Festival blog will be featuring an author talk from our archives each day during the current public health crisis. We’ll be featuring one or two per week on this blog as well, given the level …
Posted in: National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Ask a Librarian online service is open, even if the Library itself is closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted in: Education
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Garth Brooks' music fits into the Library's long history of documenting and preserving American traditional music.
Posted in: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It's peak cherry blossom season and the gorgeous trees are highlighted this month in the Library's Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free photographs, prints and illustrations.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, Pic of the Week, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Victor Willis, the lead singer and songwriter for The Village People, recounts how he wrote "Y.M.C.A," the group's massive hit that was just added to the Library's National Recording Registry.
Posted in: African American History, National Recording Registry
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Mystery Photo contest features a solved case -- a photo of what turned out to be actress Cynthia Lynn, best known as a recurring guest star on "Hogan's Heroes."
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Parents, here are some great ideas from the Library’s Center for Learning, Literacy and Engagement staff for activities with the kids while they're at home.
Posted in: Education
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The remarkable story of how the Japanese post-raid assessment of their attack on Pearl Harbor came to be held by the Library of Congress.
Posted in: History, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
One summer night in the White House in 1862, John Nicolay, Lincoln's secretary, wrote his future wife a whimsical letter about how "all bugdom" was swarming his office, attracted by the light of gas lamp.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, Washington DC