Parents! Smart Fun for Kids
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
Archive: 2020 (149 Posts)
Japanese Pilot’s Map of Pearl Harbor Attack Now at Library
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
Writing African Americans into the Story
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Jesse Holland wears a lot of different hats: he’s an award-winning political journalist, he’s a television host, he’s a professor and he’s a comics aficionado — he wrote the first novel about the Black Panther for Marvel in 2018. African American history is yet another of his passions — in particular documenting long-overlooked contributions of …
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Exhibitions, Kluge Center, Researcher Stories
Bugs in the White House? In Lincoln’s Time, They Swarmed
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
Garth Brooks: Live at the Library
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood, herself a country star and a celebrity chef, came to the Library's Coolidge Auditorium to talk with Librarian Carla Hayden about love, food, music and his receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Posted in: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music
“Dearest Lenny”: Leonard Bernstein’s Love Letters from Japan
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For pretty much all her life, Mari Yoshihara has had one foot in the United States and the other in Japan: She was born in New York City, raised in Tokyo. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tokyo, then an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Brown University. Her career as an academic …
Posted in: Collections, Music, Researcher Stories
A President and a King, George Washington and King George III, in a Dangerous Year
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division. For both George Washington and King George III of England, the summer of 1788 began a year shaped by illness and worry. Even though the sources of their troubles differed, each George had reason to look anxiously across the Atlantic. …
Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, U.S. Presidents
“Truth is mighty and will prevail”– Ida B. Wells
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Ida B. Wells, one of the most influential investigative journalists in American history, is remembered in this post as a fearless truth-teller.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights
Free to Use and Reuse: Movie Magic
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress features movie houses, grand and small, in this month's set of Free to Use and Reuse photographs and prints.
Posted in: Film, Free to Use and Reuse, Photos