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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 National Book Festival will be entirely online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the Library's Junior Fellows worked in the Signature Programs Office this summer to put previous events online, too.
Posted in: National Book Festival, New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Some of the most sought-after materials in the Library's North Korean periodicals collection are now online. It's a slice of the Asian Division's holdings in what is one of the world's largest repositories of North Korean publications.
Posted in: New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library features new coloring pages adapted from our collections, adding to the growing number of family activities on offer since Covid-19.
Posted in: Education, Influeza/Covid-19, Kids, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, New Online, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has recently digitized Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poems, including the iconic "We Real Cool," at two events 24 years apart as part of National Poetry Month. The recordings are part of the 50 poems added each year to Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
Posted in: African American History, New Online, Poetry, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of U.S. Presidents Andrew Johnson, Chester Alan Arthur and William McKinley are now available online through the Library of Congress.
Posted in: New Online, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
One summer night in the White House in 1862, John Nicolay, Lincoln's secretary, wrote his future wife a whimsical letter about how "all bugdom" was swarming his office, attracted by the light of gas lamp.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, New Online, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Alan Lomax papers at the LIbrary of Congress are now available for transcription at By the People, www.crowd.loc.gov.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, By the People, New Online
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: 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.
Posted in: New Online, Photos