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Harry Houdini: (How to Be a) Smooth Criminal

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Harry Houdini's collection at the Library of Congress shows that he worked so extensively with police that he wrote a handbook on how smart criminals worked. It was called, "The Right Way to Do Wrong."

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African-American History Month: ‘Native Son,’ Uncensored

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

This post is republished from the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The entire issue is available online. In his classic novel “Native Son,” Richard Wright tells the story of a poverty-stricken young black man who takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family in Chicago, accidentally kills the daughter …

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Recovering Silent Films: The Mostly Lost Workshop

Posted by: Wendi Maloney

At any other theater, they would be the world’s most annoying moviegoers — the last people with whom you’d want to spend a few hours in a confined space. They talk endlessly among themselves as the film plays. They shout to acquaintances across the theater. They talk back to the screen. They forever check their …

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