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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Pianist Dave Brubeck, one of America’s all-time greats in the field of jazz — and a seminal force in making jazz popular in the U.S. and throughout the world — died today, just shy of his 92nd birthday. The Librarian of Congress bestowed the Library’s “Living Legend” award on Brubeck in 2003, and it …
Posted in: Concerts, Curators, Events, Music, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Jason Steinhauer, a program specialist in the Library’s John W. Kluge Center, as part of the blog series, “Inquiring Minds.”) American astrobiologist David H. Grinspoon began on November 1 as the inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. …
Posted in: Kluge Center, Researcher Stories, Science, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
LeRoy Gresham (1847-1865) was a teenaged invalid who kept a diary for nearly every day of the Civil War, recording the news, his Confederate sympathies and perceptive details about life on the homefront as he experienced the conflict through newspapers, letters and personal visitors. The son of an attorney, judge, and plantation owner in Macon, …
Posted in: Blogging, Civil War, Congress Blogs, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is an article from the September-October 2012 issue of the Library’s new magazine, LCM, highlighting “first drafts” of important documents in American history.) O! say, can you see by the dawn’s early light …” These words are as American as, well, the American flag that inspired them. Francis Scott Key, a young …
Posted in: History, Manuscripts, Music, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
Fatalities during the Civil War were not limited to the battlefield, as both first families discovered. Both the Lincolns and the Davises lost young sons within a couple of years from each other. The Davises lost 5-year-old Joseph in 1864 when he fell to his death from their porch in Richmond, Va. According to one …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Collections, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Uncategorized
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is an article from the September-October 2012 issue of the Library’s new magazine, LCM, highlighting a “page from the past” of the publication’s humble beginnings.) With the debut of its new magazine, the Library bids a fond farewell to its predecessor, the Library of Congress Information Bulletin, which began publication 70 years ago. …
Posted in: LC Web site, Manuscripts, Uncategorized
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
The 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival closed up shop Sunday evening – leaving more than 200,000 delighted book-lovers thrilled to have heard from and met their favorite authors, stoked up with new titles to read, and exhilarated by two days of gorgeous fall weather there on the National Mall. One couple even got …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, History, LC Web site, Libraries, National Book Festival, Photos, Podcasts, Poetry, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Gayle Osterberg
(The following is a guest post from the Library’s Director of Communications, Gayle Osterberg.) It’s been a big week for the Library of Congress, as we’ve launched two exciting new resources to serve our many and varied audiences in the years ahead, and are rolling into our biggest event of the year on the National …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Events, LC Web site, National Book Festival, Thomas Jefferson Building, Uncategorized, Washington DC
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Author Bob Woodward will join the lineup for the Library of Congress National Book Festival, speaking at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23 in the History & Biography Pavilion about his new book “The Price of Politics.” More about the two-day, free-and-open-to-the-public National Book Festival at www.loc.gov/bookfest. .
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Education, Events, History, National Book Festival, Uncategorized, Washington DC