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A Civil War Story: Rebecca Pomroy, Lincoln’s Nurse
This is a guest post by Michelle Smiley, an assistant curator of photography in the Prints and Photographs Division. It appears in the May-June issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. Chris Foard...
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Ralph Ellison’s “Juneteenth” Lives on at the Library
—This is a guest post by Barbara Bair, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It appears in the May-June issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The nation will pause for a national holiday on...
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George Saunders Accepts the Library’s Prize for American Fiction
Novelist, short-story writer and essayist George Saunders was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Saturday evening in one of the final sessions of the 2023 National Book...
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The Library Reimagined, with You in Mind
This story also appears in the July-August edition of the Library of Congress Magazine. First-time visitors to the Library of Congress campus often ask the same question: Where do I even begin? It’s...
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Cheryl Regan is a veteran of the Library’s exhibits office, bringing the treasures of the world’s largest library to the public. Here, she answers a few questions about her work. Describe your work at...
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John Phelan and the Sinking of the USS Oneida
This is a guest post by Candice Buchanan, writing with recently retired colleague Mark F. Hall. Both are/were reference librarians in the History and Genealogy Section. My career started in a...
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“Books That Shaped America” Series Starts
Some of the most important works by Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston and Cesar Chavez will be the focus of a new television series being...
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160 Years Later … Where Did Lincoln Stand While Delivering the Gettysburg...
“Four score and seven years ago….” those six words, spilling out into the Pennysylvania air in 1863, marked the beginning of one of the greatest speeches in American history and a new era in the life...
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Black Dressmakers for First Ladies
This story also appears in the January-February 2024 issue of the LIbrary of Congress Magazine. Two Black seamstresses have left their mark on White House fashion history, as Elizabeth Keckley and Ann...
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Womens History Month: Filling in the (Almost) Lost World of Maggie Thompson
This is a guest post by Candice Buchanan, a reference librarian in the History and Genealogy Section. A teenage girl filling a photograph album with the images of family and friends. Though the...
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