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Baseball Americana: Playing Behind Barbed Wire

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Welcome to week three of our blog series for “Baseball Americana,” a major new Library of Congress exhibition opening June 29. This is the third of nine posts – we’re publishing one each Thursday leading up to the opening. This week, in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we’re highlighting Library collections that document …

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

Harriet Tubman: Teaming Up to Acquire a Rare Photograph

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

This post draws on the article “Pulling Together for Tubman,” published in the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. Newly discovered portraits of long-famous Americans rarely surface—especially 150 years after they were made. Last spring, however, a U.S. auction house put up for bid …

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

New Online: Rare Photo of Harriet Tubman Preserved for Future Generations

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

This post draws on the article “Building Black History: A New View of Tubman,” published in the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. A remarkable photo album brought two major institutions together to restore and preserve an important piece of American history. Today, the …

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

Jacob Riis Exhibition Opens Today

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Half the world, journalist Jacob Riis once said, doesn’t know how the other half lives, and it doesn’t know because it doesn’t care. Riis, a social reformer, author and newspaper reporter, used his work to make society take notice, exposing the squalid living and working conditions in late 19th-century New York during the height of …

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

A Prize for the Piano Man

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

Last Wednesday, the Library of Congress celebrated the music and career of singer-songwriter Billy Joel, awarding him the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. A star-studded cast walked a packed house at the DAR Constitution Hall through Joel’s own songbook during a tribute concert. I myself had the honor and privilege to also take the stage as a …