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A Feather in the Librarian's Cap

Posted by: Matt Raymond

  Last week was one of the busiest (if not the busiest) week I’ve seen since coming to the Library. There was the Library’s presentation of the $1 million Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity. There were a lot of great, new interactive features that came online in the Library of …

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

See the Declaration Before It’s Too Late!

Posted by: Matt Raymond

If you haven’t yet seen the exhibition that David McCullough calls the one “every American ought to see,” you might want to make a trip to the Library within the next few days. The original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson’s hand, with edits by John Adams and Ben Franklin, will …