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Posted by: Neely Tucker
This week the Library is launching the Constitution Annotated, a website that provides online access to a massive Senate document that has served for more than a century as the official record of the U.S. Constitution.
Posted in: New Online, News
Posted by: Michelle Rago
The Library of Congress website debuted on June 22, 1994. Explore versions of loc.gov from the past 25 years through web archives.
Posted in: LC Web site, Libraries, New Online, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Associated Press's Washington Bureau News Dispatches between the tumultuous years between 1915 and 1930 are now available online at the Library.
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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, New Online, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This post by Stephanie Hall of the American Folklife Center was first published on the center’s blog, “Folklife Today.” An important new oral history collection documenting the lives and careers of home health-care workers in Oregon is now available on the Library of Congress’ website. The American Folklife Center recently announced the release of “Taking …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Collections, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Sylvia Albro, a senior paper conservator in the Conservation Division. Earlier this month, the Library released online the Omar Ibn Said Collection, including Ibn Said’s autobiography, the only known extant autobiography written in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States. A wealthy and educated man, Ibn Said …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, New Online, Preservation
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, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division. In the summer of 2017, the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress acquired a collection of unique documents, some dating back to the 1830s. Although the documents are not very old by Library standards — …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Stephen Winick of the American Folklife Center. It was first published on the center’s blog, Folklife Today. A companion post about circus life in Hugo, Oklahoma, is available here. The American Folklife Center (AFC) is delighted to announce the online presentation of an important new oral history collection documenting …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, Collections, New Online