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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry runs our Mystery Photo Contest. He most recently wrote about twelve of our most difficult to identify entries. Readers solved four of them.
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
A Library digitization project reveals parts of World War II as the Marines lived it and heard it.
Posted in: Preservation, Technology, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Andrew Huber, a liaison specialist in the Veterans History Project, tells what it's like to help veterans tell their stories.
Posted in: My Job, Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, uses his October newsletter to how to learn during remote learning.
Posted in: Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Mystery Photo Contest is back with some of our photos that have been extremely difficult to identify.
Posted in: Film, Mystery Photo Contest
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Theater historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper writes about how she used the Library's collections to research the musicals of Johnathan Larson, author of "Rent" and others.
Posted in: Music, Researcher Stories, Theater
Posted by: John Sayers
The 2020 National Book Festival, all online, opens today and continues through the weekdend.
Posted in: National Book Festival
Posted by: John Sayers
Colson Whitehead is the recipient of the 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Posted in: African American History, National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The third major topic thread at the Library's 20th National Book Festival is "Democracy in the 21st Century," and will be explored by 21 authors in 13 programs.
Posted in: Books, National Book Festival, Writers