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Herblog

Posted by: Jennifer Gavin

From time to time, we ask ourselves: Where is the outrage? Well, for an amazing 72 years, it was on editorial pages, especially that of the Washington Post–in political commentary by the influential cartoonist Herblock (Herb Block), who made presidents and other public figures, from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush, ink-stained and wretched. The Library …

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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 …

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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 …

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Library in the News, 11/2/07

Posted by: Matt Raymond

USA Today writes about a pair of different map exhibits?one in Chicago, and another that begins Dec. 13 at the Library of Congress. (Full disclosure: In today?s hard-copy version of the newspaper, the story mistakenly referred in a single instance to the exhibit?s being held at the National Archives.) The famed 1507 Martin Waldseem?Map will …

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Homepage Changes Afoot

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The front page at LOC.gov will be getting a bit of a facelift in a couple of weeks.? (In fact, the plan is to time it to the 20th anniversary of the Librarian of Congress’s tenure on Sept. 14.) The changes won?t be radical, but we do hope they will be viewed as improvements.? You …