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A graphic featuring the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Award Recipients, including: Dr. Allie Martin, Maya Freelon, Indiana University, Angelo State University, University of Houston-Downtown, Hoboken Public Library, Friends of Tijeras Pueblo, and DC Public Library.

Recording of CCDI’s Fall 2024 Awardee Project Celebration Now Available Online 

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

AHHA Intern Spotlight: Ava Thorpe

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”

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

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

2024 CCDI Junior Fellow Jonathan Walton Connects Experiences of Diverse Artist Communities Through Sound

A graphic promoting the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Awardee Project Celebration. The virtual event will be held on November 20 at 1pm EST.

Register Today for CCDI’s 2024 Awardee Project Celebration!

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

Junior Fellow Spotlight: Emily Paterson

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

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