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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, will receive the 2020 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, the Librarian of Congress has announced.
Posted in: Kluge Center
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Jesse Holland wears a lot of different hats: he’s an award-winning political journalist, he’s a television host, he’s a professor and he’s a comics aficionado — he wrote the first novel about the Black Panther for Marvel in 2018. African American history is yet another of his passions — in particular documenting long-overlooked contributions of …
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Exhibitions, Kluge Center, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In September, the John W. Kluge Center welcomed Simon Martin, anthropologist and specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing, as the second Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.
Posted in: Jay I. Kislak Collection, Kluge Center
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Patrick Egan is a researcher and musician from Ireland, currently at the Library of Congress on a Fulbright Tech Impact scholarship, researching Irish traditional music.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Kluge Center, My Job
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Adam Rothman, a professor of history at Georgetown University and an expert on the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world. Last fall, he was a distinguished visiting scholar at the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. Here Rothman writes about the Omar Ibn Said Collection, which the …
Posted in: Collections, Kluge Center, Manuscripts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
On Wednesday, Sept. 12, Drew Gilpin Faust – historian, former Harvard University president and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” – will accept the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The $1 million Kluge Prize, bestowed through the generosity of …
Posted in: Civil War, Events, Kluge Center
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced that Drew Gilpin Faust—historian, Harvard University president and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War”—will receive the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The $1 million Kluge Prize, bestowed through the generosity of the …
Posted in: Civil War, Kluge Center
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Dan Turello of the John W. Kluge Center. As James English describes in his 2005 book, “The Economy of Prestige,” like so much in our cultural history, the practice of awarding prizes can be traced back to the Greeks, who, in addition to creating the Olympics, introduced drama and …
Posted in: Kluge Center
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by John Haskell, director of the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. After an extensive selection process, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will announce the winner of the 2018 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity on June 12. The privately endowed prize, which celebrates the impact …
Posted in: Kluge Center