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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Novelist, short-story and essayist Joy Williams, known for books such as "State of Grace" and "The Quick and the Dead," has won the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Posted in: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
During Pride Month, the U.S. Copyright Office offers guidance and encouragement to drag performers to register their creative work for copyright protection.
Posted in: Copyright, LGBTQ, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Of the Library's many Pride Month events is Pride Night Online, in which Megan Metcalf, the Women's Gender and LGBTQIA+ studies librarian and collection specialist, will conduct a free online workshop to researching LGBTQ material in our collections.
Posted in: Events, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Ninety years ago, a Texas grocer named Lorenzo D. Buchanan stepped forward with one of the great hoaxes of 20th-century American pop-culture life, a genealogical fabrication that continues to resonate today. The Great Buchanan Inheritance Hoax rocked American life from 1931-1936 with his false tale of an $85 million inheritance that was available to anyone who could prove a family connection.
Posted in: Genealogy, Researcher Stories, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The military order that led to the federal holiday of Juneteenth was not regarded as important national news when it was issued in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil War, Newspapers, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The photographs of Bernard Gotfryd, now free for anyone to use from the Library's collections, are a remarkable resource of late 20th-century American pop-culture and political life, as he was a Newsweek staff photographer based in New York for three decades. He was also a Holocaust survivor who wrote about the experience with grace and courage.
Posted in: Holocaust, Jewish American History, New Online, Photos, World War II, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map was the first to name the New World as "America," for the Italian-born explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. The Library holds the only copy of the map known to still exist.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, LCM
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, devotes his June newsletter to the mysteries of doing the laundry.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A 529-year-old Jewish religious text is discovered in the Library's collections, just in time for Eric Lander, the new director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, to use it in his swearing-in ceremony.
Posted in: Jewish American History, Rare Book and Special Collections