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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry runs our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He most recently wrote about Florence McFadden. He’s back with a batch of solved mysteries. Readers! We have a bonanza of solved Mystery Photo Contest entries! You’ll remember that, with reader help, we recently identified actresses Wendy Phillips and Florence McFadden from our …
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Newly colorized photographs from the 1963 March on Washington show the historic day in a new light.
Posted in: African American History, New Online, Photos, Researcher Stories, Today in History, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
One hundred years ago today -- August 26, 1920 -- Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified that the 19th Amendment had become a part of the U.S. Constitution. It didn't bring the right to vote to most women of color, though.
Posted in: Today in History, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In 1619, German astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote “Harmonices Mundi” (“Harmony of the Worlds”), a book that tried to understand the mystery of the polyhedral designs of viruses. Four centuries later, the same designs are seen in the building blocks of COVID-19. The Library has copies of Kepler's work in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
Posted in: COVID-19, Geography and Maps Division, Rare Book and Special Collections, Science
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 National Book Festival will be entirely online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the Library's Junior Fellows worked in the Signature Programs Office this summer to put previous events online, too.
Posted in: National Book Festival, New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The "double war" of World War II -- segregated units fought fascism abroad and discrimination at home.
Posted in: African American History, World War II
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Reference librarian Talia Guzman-Gonzalez helps connect patrons with the resources they need.
Posted in: My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Nearly 50,000 title pages that accompanied copyright registrations dating back to the foundation of the country are now online for the first time, featuring works by some of the nation's most famous authors.
Posted in: Copyright, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Allen Neuharth Papers in the Library's Manuscript Division provide an inside look at a changing industry, the rise of the only national newspaper established after World War II and the thoughts, practices and endeavors of a media mogul who helped defined the age.
Posted in: Manuscripts, Newspapers