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Posted by: Brett Zongker
The Library of Congress, National Archives, and Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative team up for a series of exhibits marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Posted in: Exhibitions
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The LIbrary opened "Shall Not Be Denied," a yearlong exhibit, on June 4, 2019, 100 years after the U.S. Senate ratified the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Exhibitions, Today in History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
I.M. Pei died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. In recognition of his extraordinary achievements, we reprint this guest post by Mari Nakahara, curator of architecture, design and engineering in the Prints and Photographs Division, focusing on his items in the Library. It ran on his 100th birthday. Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Major League Baseball starts today, which makes it the start of spring, never mind the official calendar. We remind you that your friendly national Library is just a long fly ball from Nationals Park, where the Nats open today against the New York Mets. If you haven’t made it to our Baseball Americana exhibit, it’s …
Posted in: Baseball, Exhibitions
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Amanda Reichenbach about a new American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) collection covering education reporting on public television. The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Boston public broadcaster WGBH. Reichenbach worked on the release while interning last summer at the Library’s John W. Kluge …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Education, Exhibitions, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It coincides with the centenary this month of the first Pan-African Congress. The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line, author and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote in “To the Nations of the World,” …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Exhibitions
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division, to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice ending World War I. “Everything for which America has fought has been accomplished,” wrote President Woodrow Wilson on Nov. 11, 1918, in a statement addressed to his “fellow countrymen.” The …
Posted in: Civil Rights, Exhibitions
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. The post celebrates both National Hispanic Heritage Month and the Library’s ongoing exhibition Baseball Americana. “I remember traveling to Lake Elsinore, which was a long way in those days. … [T]he only ride we could get was from a friend who …
Posted in: Baseball, Civil Rights, Exhibitions, Hispanic American History
Posted by: Brett Zongker
For the first time in more than 70 years, the Gutenberg Bible at the Library of Congress will be moved into a new display case specially designed for the artifact’s long-term conservation and to better showcase the iconic book. To prepare for the new exhibit, the Gutenberg Bible will be taken off view Friday, Sept. …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Exhibitions, News, Preservation