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Archive: 2024 (42 Posts)

Reconstruction. Primary sources show aspects of different social, political, and cultural changes during Reconstruction and their legacy.

AHHA Intern Spotlight: Ava Thorpe

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Ava Thorpe, an intern in the AHHA program during the Fall of 2024. Transforming Education with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: My Journey with the Library of Congress Digital Collections My name is Ava Thorpe, and I had the privilege of working on a transformative project titled “Supporting Culturally Relevant Pedagogy …

Members of NHBP pose in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building of the Library of Congress, with staff member from the American Folklife Center in the middle.

Community Collections Spotlight: Indian Town: Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi) People, “We’re Still Here”

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

This is a guest post by Michelle and JW Newson on the 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Indian Town, of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP). The American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grant program is part of the Library of Congress Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.

A group photo of musicians and dancers at the altar of small church in Carnuel, New Mexico.

Community Collections Spotlight: Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matachines y Los Comanchitos and Passing Down Tradition in Small New Mexican Villages

Posted by: Michelle Stefano

American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant recipient Yvette Cohn Stoor writes about her project, Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matechines Y Los Comanchitos, as supported through the Library’s Of the People: Widening the Path initiative.

Emily Paterson smiles at the camera. She has light skin, shoulder-length blonde hair, and a black dress.

Junior Fellow Spotlight: Emily Paterson

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Emily Paterson, a 2024 Junior Fellow who interned in the Office of the Chief Information Office’s Design Division.   Exploring Image Descriptions How would you describe the image above using only your words? Maybe you would mention its pencil-sketched look or describe the focused behavior of the readers. Perhaps …

A collage of color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations, showing the collections of the Library of Congress.

Apply to the 2025 Junior Fellows Program

Posted by: Donna Sokol

The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its next Junior Fellows Program, a summer internship held remotely and onsite from May 19 to July 25, 2025. The Junior Fellows Program is a paid, full-time internship that enables the next generation of diverse cultural institution professionals to experience and interpret the collections, programs, and services of …

A photo of Janiya Peters, a 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow.

2024 CCDI Junior Fellow Janiya Peters Uses Audio to Explore the Cotton Gin as a Technological Artifact

Posted by: Olivia Dorsey

In this guest post, Janiya Peters, a Summer 2024 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow, describes the process behind creating her project, "The Gin in Motion: Examining the Cotton Gin Through Sound and Narrative."