From the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog: The Library of Congress is open to all for online office hours on education resources and learning ideas using Library collections. For the next months, join us every Tuesday and Thursday at 2 ET at https://locgov.webex.com/meet/kblack. Each session will include a 20-minute presentation with plenty of time for questions and answers with Library education experts. Please send questions in advance via Twitter @TeachingLC. Tuesday, March … [Read more...]
Primary Source Spotlight: Music
June 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
National Jukebox PSN curated primary source sets American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Marian Anderson California Folk Music Project George M. Cohan Aaron Copland Duke Ellington James Reese Europe Ella Fitzgerald George Gershwin & Gullah Culture Dizzy Gillespie W.C. Handy & the Blues Victor Herbert Billie Holiday Jazz Music Julia Ward Howe Mahalia Jackson Louis Jordan Jenny Lind Metropolitan Opera House … [Read more...]
Primary Source Spotlight: Science & Technology
March 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Library collections Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Photos Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Emile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond Frances Benjamin Johnston Gardens and Historic … [Read more...]
Primary Source Spotlight: Film & Video
October 27, 2014 by 1 Comment
Film & video collections All American News America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures 1894-1915 American Archive of Public Broadcasting 1960 on American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920 Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco 1897-1916 Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada 1945-1982 The Carnegie Hall Collection of Conversations with Composers Chicago Ethnic Arts Project … [Read more...]
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