James Reese Europe song recordings James Reese Europe sheet music Ragtime Dance: Castle Walk film Ragtime Dance: One Step Variation film James Reese Europe images Memoirs of Jim Europe James Reese Europe: timeline & select newspaper articles More James Reese Europe historic newspaper coverage Clef Club historical newspaper coverage 369th Infantry historic newspaper coverage Jazz Master James Reese…
Snow images Snowflake images Most Beautiful of All Snow Mountains New-York Tribune December 23, 1917 Snow-related films Snow-related song recordings Snow sheet music Snowflake sheet music Picnic in the Snow lyrics Snow, by David Berman Poem 039, Poetry 180 A Christmas snowflake; a rhyme for children Snow-related books Classic books online Snowflakes research guide Is it true that no…
Places in the News: Australia February 2009 March 2010 April 2010 December 2010 Tasmania, Australia January 2013 Australia country profile BBC Australia timeline BBC Australia primary source set World Digital Library Australia maps Australia image set Australia sheet music Books & reports about Australia Webcasts related to Australia An evening of Australian poetry Vincent Buckley, David Malouf,…
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Sweden primary source set from the World Digital Library Sweden maps Sweden image set Swede personal narratives Swede oral history interviews U.S. veteran oral histories (service in Sweden) Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection interviews mentioning Sweden Swedish American Song Swedish sheet music Swedish song recordings Books, articles and other texts about Sweden Thomas Jefferson correspondence…
Bats Bat image set Bats in historical newspaper articles “Unsuccessful effort to draw bats from the belfry of W.A. White” sketch by Theodore Roosevelt Bat wildlife reports (California, South Dakota, Utah, United States; Alberta, Canada; New Zealand) Library blog posts Bats: Out of Our Nightmares and Into Our Hearts Inside Adams October 29, 2022 Bats:…
Curated collections of LOC.gov links Library collections Online Exhibitions Dance images Featured Image: Julian and Julienne Dancers portraits by Carl Van Vechten Dance films & streaming webcasts David Fullard: The Art of Photographing Dance Dance music recordings Sheet music related to dance Topics in Chronicling America Special Presentation: Tap Dance in America Learning from the Source: Science…
The Dream of Flight online exhibition With Wings as Eagles: From Fantasy to Flight (primary source sets documenting the history of flight) Today in History: Wright Brothers First Flight Early Women in Aviation 1910-19: Topics in Chronicling America Introduction & timeline Search strategies & selected articles American Female Pilots 1911-21: Topics in Chronicling America Introduction &…
Civil War photograph lessons & activities Devil in the Details: Examining Visual Material from the Civil War The Mathew Brady Bunch New Technologies and New Uses Using Sources: Civil War Photography Technology & Tricks What Do You See? Learning from the Source lesson plans Gettysburg Address Game On Civil War Prison Experiences Geography & the Civil…
This Emily Dickinson poem was set to music by composer Ernst Bacon. Take a closer look at this sheet music and read the lyrics. What feeling does this poem give you? What specific word choices influence how you feel? What kind of music do you think would go with these words (happy, upbeat, sad, mournful, lively, slow,…
Poet Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson seldom left home but she read a lot, exchanged letters with many people, and spent a great deal of time with her family—her sister Lavinia also lived at home her entire life and her brother Austin and his wife lived next door. Learn more…
Music is such a powerful primary source and can really help us connect to and engage with a person or an event. The Library of Congress is full of digital music resources, including numerous sheet music collections and items. But what to do if you would like to hear the music but cannot play an instrument…