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Posted by: Neely Tucker
A reader identifies our Mystery Photo Contest's "most mysterious woman." Turns out she's been working in television and film for more than forty years, hiding in plain sight.
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library is amassing a vast collection of materials that document the COVID-19 pandemic, including the award-winning photography of Camilo Vergara.
Posted in: Influeza/Covid-19, Photos, Preservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, will receive the 2020 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, the Librarian of Congress has announced.
Posted in: Kluge Center
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Some of the origins of Juneteenth can be traced to the front porch of a plantation house in Limestone County, Texas, where a slaveowner told his 150 enslaved workers that they were free on June 19, 1865.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
How would freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass have sounded while delivering one of his classic speeches? A speech on John Brown offers a few clues.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil War, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's collections document the historic 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest protests for social justice in national history, in our Changemakers series.
Posted in: African American History, Exhibitions, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In this writing exercise, Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, challenges you to invent new synonyms.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Rosa Parks launched one of the most influential protests in American history, chronicled at the Library and featured in the exhibit, "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words." You can explore it online, even while the Library is closed due to COVID-19. The Parks papers and exhibit are part of the Library's role in preserving and presenting the lives of revolutionary American changemakers.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Exhibitions
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In a National Book Festival Presents conversation that premieres tonight (June 5), Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch discuss the national protests that have roiled the nation after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Crime and Punishment, National Book Festival, News