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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Garth Brooks, winner of the 2020 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, will be in conversation with his wife, fellow country-music star Trisha Yearwood, and Librarian Carla Hayden at the Library's Coolidge Auditorium on March 2, 2020.
Posted in: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music, News
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Readers can help transcribe letters written to President Abraham Lincoln in the Library's crowdsourcing campaign.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, By the People
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Love letters dot the Library of Congress's collections — centuries of devotion, passion, longing, regret and heartbreak put down on paper.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress now has the world's only known complete collection of "Negro Romance," the only black romance comic printed in America's Golden Age of Comics.
Posted in: Comics
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age story has influenced writers and touched millions of people. Yet its title is not original to Angelou: She borrowed it from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that he composed, at least in part, in response …
Posted in: Film, Poetry, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Rosa Parks Papers are the subject of a major exhibit at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Civil Rights, Collections, Exhibitions
Posted by: John Sayers
The Library of Congress has launched a continuing selection of rights-free images from its collections on the Unsplash stock photo website.
Posted in: Photos, Social Media
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The recently digitized records of the AFL in the Library's Manuscript Division reveals the complexities of the organization as it struggled with race and ethnicity, often in deeply problematic ways.
Posted in: Manuscripts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Filmmaker Rocky Lang talks about how he recently teamed up with film historian Barbara Hall to publish “Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking,” drawn on correspondence from several collections, including from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Film, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories