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Film, VideoCopyright Registration Demonstration & Concert Copyright registration demonstration and concert with performers from Broadcast Music Inc.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoKate DiCamillo: 2014 National Book Festival National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Kate DiCamillo appears at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoKate Masur: An Example for All the Land In "An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C." (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), author Kate Masur offers the first major study in more than 50 years of the nation's capital during Reconstruction. The author's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoEric Weiner: 2016 National Book Festival Eric Weiner discusses "The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places, from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoWhat Time Was the American Revolution? Reflections on a Familiar Narrative This lecture challenged our traditional assumptions about the chronology of the American Revolution. T.H. Breen rejected a familiar story that begins in the early 1760s with the coronation of George III and then traces a slow buildup of grievances until the colonists declare independence and set the country on the road to the Constitution. This talk introduced a radically different timeline that reinterprets the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2017
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Film, VideoDPLAfest 2016: Digital Collections in the K-12 Classroom - Connecting with Teachers and Students What are teachers and students looking for from digital collections and platforms? In this session, education project leaders from major institutions, through the lens of their individual projects, led a discussion on the big questions of digital GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) education outreach.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoTories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War Most Americans have learned the essential narrative of the American Revolution: Our Founding Fathers led proud Patriots to fight against British rule and ultimately prevailed. Rarely mentioned are the thousands of Tories, or Loyalists, who supported the British and fought to remain in their American homes as loyal subjects of the crown. Historian Thomas B. Allen contends the American Revolution was as much a...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoTeen Board with Meg Medina Meg Medina met with the Young Reader's Center Teen Board to discuss her career and how she finds ideas and creates historical fiction for several of her Young Adult fiction books. The discussion included her most recent, "Burn, Baby, Burn," for which she did extensive research at the Library of Congress.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoCollections, Collaborations & Connections Symposium (3 of 3) Panel discussions highlight the collections of the American Folklife Center, explored new approaches to cultural documentation, and focused on current best practices. Research scholars, community members, documentarians and archivists at a range of cultural institutions discussed historical initiatives, current challenges and emerging trends with audience members and center staff. Speakers included Steve Winick, Elizabeth Peterson, Jane Anderson, Kim Christen, James Francis, Judith Gray, Megan...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoWeight Loss Through the Ages Nutrition, obesity and weight-loss experts gathered at the Library of Congress to present "Weight Loss Through the Ages: Where We've Been, What We've Learned and Where We're Going."
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoImages of the Earth in American Children's Books German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children's books from 1843 to the present. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the planet appeared from space was collectively imagined...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoMarce Lacouture with David Greely and Kristi Guillory: Cajun Music from Louisiana Marce Lacouture, David Greely, and Kristi Guillory perform traditional Cajun music at the Library of Congress. This concert is part of the Homegrown Concert Series, presented by the American Folklife Center.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2010
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Film, VideoDisaster Management & Public Health Virginia Murray spoke about disaster risk reduction and management from a public health point of view. She addressed the implementation of the Sendai Framework for public health and the importance of working with other multidisciplinary as well as transdisciplinary sciences and policies to further the debate on how to construct a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to reduce disaster risk over the next 15 years.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoAsk a Librarian at the Library of Congress This video demonstrates how to use the Ask a Librarian Service at the Library of Congress.
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division - Library of Congress
- Date: 2021
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Film, VideoTreating the Second Anglo Afghan War Album: Negotiations Between Book & Photograph Conservation The Library of Congress "Afghanistan" album, containing 97 albumen prints from the Second Anglo-Afghan war, was severely deteriorated and could not be handled by patrons. Before treatment, conservators Dana Hemmenway and Yasmeen Khan explored the context in which the images were produced, details of the album's assembly, and the relationship of the album to other albums that document the same events.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoGraphic Novelist Peter Kuper on "Ruins" Graphic novelist Peter Kuper discusses his book, "Ruins," which follows the story of Samantha and George, a couple on sabbatical in the Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is an opportunity to revisit her past while writing her book. For George, it is an anxious step into the unknown. Woven into the story is the remarkable and arduous journey that a monarch butterfly...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoPoetry Reading by Merrill Leffler Merrill Leffler speaks about his new book, "Mark the Music."
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoWednesday is Indigo Blue: How Synesthesia Speaks to Creativity Neurologist Richard Cytowic rediscovered the involuntary joining of different senses in 1980 and returned it to the scientific mainstream. In his recent book, "Wednesday is Indigo Blue," Cytowic sums up 30 years of exploration into synesthesia's place in both science and art. Far from a mere curiosity, it is an elevated form of the perception everyone already has. Minds that function differently are not...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division
- Date: 2009
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Film, VideoJohn Cena Reads "The Story of Ferdinand" WWE wrestler and actor John Cena reads "The Story of Ferdinand," the children's book by Munro Leaf published in 1936. The book was made into a Disney short animated film two years later, and is now being resurrected by 20th Century Fox Animation as a full-length feature film with Cena voicing the title character. Cena talks about his life and the sport and sportsmanship...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2017
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Film, VideoMapping New World Peoples in Renaissance Europe Kislak Fellow Surekha Davies discusses how Renaissance mapmakers devised distinctive motifs for the inhabitants of different parts of the Americas.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2014
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Film, VideoThe First Sale Doctrine, Section 117 & Other Limitations & Exceptions The U.S. Copyright Office is undertaking a study to review the role of copyright law with respect to software-enabled consumer products. This session will explore whether current limitations on and exceptions to copyright protection adequately address issues concerning software embedded in everyday products, or whether amendments or clarifications would be useful.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoThe Emergence of Life: In the Lab (Session 2) Presentations on the emergence of life on in the lab, including "Minerals, Organics, and the Origins of Life," "Synthesizing Life: From Early Origins to New Natures" and "Analysis: Synthesis." Part of a day-long symposium on the origins of life, how we came to know it, and what it means.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoMir Ali Shir Symposium: Panel 3. During the 15th century, Mir Ali Shir (1441-1501) was the major literary figure among the Central Asian Turkic peoples, the ancestors of today's Uzbeks. His life, work and legacy was the focus of a symposium held at the Library of Congress. Sponsored by the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division and the Embassy of Uzbekistan, the symposium examined the writings of Mir Ali shir...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2007
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Film, VideoJohn McCutcheon: 2006 National Book Festival Author John McCutcheon speaks at the 2006 National Book Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2006
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Film, VideoRaina Telgemeier: 2016 National Book Festival Raina Telgemeier discusses "Ghosts" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2016