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Posted by: Neely Tucker
“Dear Bob….Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the GIs of World War II," a new book, draws heavily on the Library's Bob Hope Collection.
Posted in: Performing Arts, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Library of Congress photographer Carol Highsmith recounts some of her nation-traveling work during the pandemic.
Posted in: Photos, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Kermit the Frog stops in to chat with Librarian Carla Hayden about his induction into the 2020 class of the National Recording Registry with his banjo-strumming ballad, "The Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
Posted in: Kids, Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 class of the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress incudes hits from Janet Jackson, Nas, Jackson Browne, Flaco Jimenez, Jimmy Cliff, newscast recordings and one of the first recordings of an American voice, by Thomas Edison, in 1878,
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library is collaborating with the international initiative Fragmentarium.ms to help pioneer digital fragmentology, piecing together long-ago manuscripts that were torn apart or had fallen into pieces over the centuries. Fragmentarium is building an international community around the ability to identify, search, compare, and collect data on medieval manuscript fragments. What does that mean? For one, it means that libraries across the world can work together to create complete virtual reconstructions of Ege’s manuscripts. O
Posted in: Manuscripts, Preservation and Conservation, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
For Women’s History Month, the Hispanic Division shares stories of Latinas who been inspirations and whose works are in the Library.
Posted in: Hispanic Division, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Reference Librarian Candice Buchanan offers advice to researchers and family members who are interested to searching for the names and activities of women involved in the suffrage movement.
Posted in: African American History, Genealogy, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Today the Library launches Read Around the States, a program in which U.S. members of Congress pick a book for young people that is connected to their states – either through the book’s setting or author, or perhaps simply because it is a favorite of the member.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Congress, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
My mother is 75. And that means a lot. It means she’s lived over 27,000 days, which is a whole bunch of days. It means she remembers when watching television was for fancy people—a luxury. Same as running water. And electricity. She remembers the civil rights movement, the March on Washington, the death of Dr. …
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers