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Posted by: Brett Zongker
The Library's 2024 National Book Festival will be August 24, featuring writers and personalities across the humanities including James McBride, Renee Fleming, James Patterson, Marie Arana and many others.
Posted in: Books, Drink, Events, Hispanic and Latino, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees, Literacy, National Book Festival, Poetry, Washington DC, Writers
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Everyone who enters the Main Reading Room cranes their necks as far back as they can to take in “Human Understanding,” a mural created by American artist Edwin Howland Blashfield 125 feet above at the apex of the soaring, coffered dome. Here's a short guide to what some of the painted figures represent.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, LCM, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Edith Book of Hours is a tiny 14th-century masterpiece of Gothic illumination. It's less than 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide, yet has more than 300 pages and is filled with gorgeous illustrations, still vibrantly colorful after more than 700 years.
Posted in: Books, LCM, Rare Book and Special Collections