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    Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Front door lobby This is an original manuscript of Park's account of her work on the NAWSA Congressional Committee.
    • Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Park, Maud Wood
    • Date: 1920

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    Reverb : African American a capella singing from Washington, DC,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2007-02-07 | Reverb | Homegrown 2007, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Collection of digital video, sound recordings, and photographs documenting a concert by Reverb on February 7, 2007 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Introductions by Debra Murphy and Mike Licht, who discuss the history and events scheduled for African American History Month. Reverb is a Washington, D.C. a cappella gospel...
    • Contributor: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Reverb (Vocal Group) - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Bess Lomax Hawes collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Papers and audiovisual materials relating to the career and personal life of folk arts administrator, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, musician, and teacher Bess Lomax Hawes, most from 1960-2001. Includes work produced by Hawes when she was a professor at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California, and as head of the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Arts Program in Washington, D.C. The collection...
    • Contributor: National Endowment for the Arts. Folk Arts Program - Hawes, Bess Lomax - Hawes, Butch
    • Date: 1894
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    The long black freedom struggle, African American soldiers in WWI and Korea,
    African American soldiers in WWI & Korea | Many paths to freedom: looking back, looking ahead at the long civil rights movement | American Folklife Center lecture, 2014-03-18 | American Folklife Center symposium, 2014-03-18 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In a Scholars Roundtable as part of the series "Many Paths to Freedom: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at the Long Civil Rights Movement," scholar Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University, discusses black soldiers' experiences in World War I and stresses the importance of World War I in the long civil rights movement by arguing that it provided a crucial training ground and intellectual crucible for the...
    • Contributor: Patrick, Robert - Blacks in Government (U.S.). Library of Congress Chapter - American Folklife Center - Veterans History Project (U.S.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Cline, David P. - Lentz-Smith, Adriane
    • Date: 2014
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    Memorialization and justice as an ancestral imperative : two American cases
    American Folklife Center lecture, 2015-06-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Ken Bilby, Smithsonian Research Associate, discussed the role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices, which is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil rights, and justice. In this context, he reflected on two pathbreaking cases of recent public memorialization: the Moiwana Massacre, which took place in the Republic of Suriname, South America in 1986 and the...
    • Contributor: Bilby, Kenneth M. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    Legends and legacies : remembering Archie Green,
    Legends and legacies: an American Folklife Center celebration of public folklore | American Folklife Center symposium, 2009-10-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Archie Green memorial: remembering Archie, with speakers Nancy Pelosi, Judy McCulloh, Eddie Bond and Josh Ellis (fiddle & banjo), Mike Munoz, Paula Johnson, Joseph T. Wilson, Northern Neck Chantey Singers, Derek Green, and Bill Ferris (September 10, 2009, 1-5 pm)
    • Contributor: Ferris, William R. - Pelosi, Nancy - Johnson, Paula J. - McCulloh, Judith - Munoz, Michael S. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center - Wilson, Joe
    • Date: 2009
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    Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto : Lado a lado (side by side) -- contemporary Latin American storytelling,
    Latina storyteller oral history | American Folklife Center concert, 2016-04-07 | Lado a lado (side by side): contemporary Latin American storytelling | Homegrown 2016, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of an oral history conducted by Stephen D. Winick following a performance in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 7, 2016 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Carmen Agra Deedy and Karla Campillo-Soto performed "Lado a Lado (Side by Side): Contemporary Latin American Storytelling." They shared...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Deedy, Carmen Agra - Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Millennium Stage - Campillo-Soto, Karla - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    American Folklife Center directors' roundtable : a retrospective of the Center's first forty years,
    AFC directors' roundtable: a retrospective of the Center's first forty years | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-05-17 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of American Folklife Center director Betsy Peterson, former director Alan Jabbour, and former director Peggy Bulger discussing the history and future of the Center in a roundtable discussion moderated by Cliff Murphy, director of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts.
    • Contributor: Jabbour, Alan - Bulger, Peggy A. - Murphy, Clifford R. - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Peterson, Betsy - American Folklife Center - Dewhurst, C. Kurt
    • Date: 2016
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    The Transformative Power of Storytelling : A Social Force for Social Change, lecture by Kiran Singh Sirah,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-05-25 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a lecture by Kiran Singh Sirah, executive director of the International Storytelling Center, producer of the world-acclaimed National Storytelling Festival, based in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He discussed storytelling as a community-building tool that we can use to foster, cultivate, and strengthen peace and collaboration in our communities, and explored how we collectively might use new storytelling forms in the arenas of peace and...
    • Contributor: Sirah, Kiran Singh - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    Dressing the past: Civil War reenactors, Williamsburg historic interpreters, and exploring American identity through costume,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-06-07 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Pravina Shukla, folklorist and associate professor at Indiana University, presents her research on costume and American identities. The periods of the American Revolution and the Civil War remain topics of pride and contention, subjects of popular writing, and inspiration for costumed performance. In eighteenth-century garments at Colonial...
    • Contributor: Shukla, Pravina - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    Home canning : cultural narratives, technological change, and the status of traditional knowledge,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-07-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation by Danille Christensen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. She discusses the history of home canning and the contempory revival of canning, drawing on filmstrips, posters, cartoons, newspaper captions, canning manuals, mail-order catalogs, and other sources. She offers examples that complicate...
    • Contributor: Christensen, Danille - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    Canaries, nightingales, whistlers, and transcribers: birdsong, bird-imitators and the early 20th-century recording industry,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2016-08-02 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Ian Nagoski, founder and director, Canary Records of Baltimore, Maryland, discusses examples of rare early recordings of birdsong imitations from his recent digital release "Ecstatic & Wingless: Bird-Imitation on Four Continents, ca. 1910-44" to explore this forgotten art form and illuminate the world of vaudevillians and bird-fanciers,...
    • Contributor: Nagoski, Ian - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2016
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    Open mic: Mark D. Moss interview,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | Folk Music, the Folk Revival & Folk Music Journalism Day | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-05-10 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Sing Out! Executive Director and Editor Mark Moss discussed the history of Sing Out! magazine and the significance and challenges of folk music journalism over the past six decades with American Folklife Center staff Nancy Groce and Stephen D. Winick. The mid-20th century "folk revival"-- an explosion...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Moss, Mark - Groce, Nancy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    Peggy Seeger : A Life of Music, Love, and Politics, lecture by Jean R. Freedman,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-09-07 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, September 7, 2017, 12:00-1:00 pm. Drawing from her recently published biography of Peggy Seeger's life and contributions as a performer, song writer, and activist on both sides of the Atlantic, author Jean Freedman discusses Peggy Seeger's career from...
    • Contributor: Freedman, Jean R. (Jean Rose) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2017
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    Stetson Kennedy : Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy, lecture and reading by Peggy A. Bulger,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2017-09-19 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, September 19, 2017, 12:00-1:00 pm. Reading from her recently published biography, author Peggy A. Bulger discusses Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011) who led a remarkable life as a political activist, writer, and folklorist. His life was one of cultural advocacy...
    • Contributor: Bulger, Peggy A. - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Open mic: Jayme Stone interview, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Sound recording and photographs of an Open Mic interview with banjoist and composer Jayme Stone, Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on May 4, 2017. Interview conducted by Todd Harvey, American Folklife Center. Jayme Stone discussed his albums "Jayme Stone's Folklife" and "Jayme Stone's Lomax Project" and the influence of Alan Lomax's field recordings on his creative process.
    • Contributor: Stone, Jayme - Harvey, Todd - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Picturing America : Portraits of National Endowment for the Arts Folk Masters, Conversation with Barry Bergey and Tom Pich,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-02-28 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
    • Contributor: Pich, Tom - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Bergey, Barry
    • Date: 2018
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    John McCutcheon : Traditional Folk Music From the American Folklife Center Archive,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-09-12 | John McCutcheon in Concert | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on September 12, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. McCutcheon played music from the American Folklife Center's collections, including material from Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger's collections, as well as his own.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - McCutcheon, John - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Since 1968 : Cultural Documentation, Production, and Place, Symposium,
    Since '68: Cultural Organizations, Programming & Documentation, and Community Enrichment in New York, Kentucky, and Washington, DC | American Folklife Center symposium, 2018-09-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     This symposium explored the themes of cultural production, geography, and community as manifest in the history of three organizations who trace their beginnings to the swell of social change that emerged in 1968. The first of two panels featured staff from the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York) and Appalshop (Kentucky). Celebrating its 50th anniversary, CTMD has long engaged in programming and...
    • Contributor: Drum and Spear Bookstore - Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, N.Y.) - Appalshop, Inc - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Before and After '68 : The Poor People's Campaign, Then and Now, Symposium,
    American Folklife Center symposium, 2018-06-14 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     This symposium, produced in conjunction with the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), discussed and compared the goals of Dr. King's last mass social action, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 with those of a newly-launched Poor People's Campaign, from the perspective of participants, organizers and documentarians of both initiatives. Scholars and curators from educational and cultural memory institutions spoke to the ways...
    • Contributor: District of Columbia. Public Library - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    From the Mountains to the Sea : the Anne and Frank Warner collection, Presented by Jeff Warner and Gerret Warner,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-07-20 | From the Mountains to the Sea: The Anne & Frank Warner Collection | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a presentation and concert in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building, Library of Congress on July 20, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. A live presentation with multimedia, focusing on the Anne and Frank Warner collection. The Anne and Frank Warner collection is one of the great treasures in...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Folklore Society of Greater Washington - Warner, Jeff - Warner, Gerret - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2018
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    Muslim American Journeys Listening Event, co-sponsored with MALA (Muslim American Leadership Alliance) and StoryCorps,
    Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-07-24 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. This public listening event showcased narratives from the American Folklife Center's StoryCorps collection that illustrate the diversity of Muslim American cultural identity. The event featured excerpts of Muslim American stories recently collected as part of a StoryCorps outreach partnership to encourage more Muslim Americans to document their...
    • Contributor: Muslim American Leadership Alliance - American Folklife Center - Storycorps (Project) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2017
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    Stepping Back in Time : Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-09-06 | Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake & Barbara Freeman | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a performance in the Mumford Room, James Madison Building, Library of Congress on September 6, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Storytellers Connie Regan-Blake and first cousin Barbara Freeman take the stage in a rare joint performance and interview for the Library of Congress in our Nation's Capital. Barbara...
    • Contributor: Winick, Stephen D. - Library of Congress. Music Division - Regan-Blake, Connie - Freeman, Barbara - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's Celebratory Event "Speak the People/the Spark/el Poema" panel and concert,
    Speak the People / the Spark / el Poema: Celebrating Juan Felipe Herrera Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     A host of acclaimed scholars, musicians and community organizers joined Juan Felipe Herrera to close his second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. The panel discussion with Juan Felipe Herrera and Martha Gonzalez, Hugo Morales and Louie Perez was moderated by Rafael Perez-Torres. Grammy Award-winning band Quetzal closed the evening with a concert.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Herrera, Juan Felipe - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Poetry Office - Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - American Folklife Center - Quetzal (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2017
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    Ancestral Voices Roundtable,
    Title from webcast: Ancestral Voices Roundtable | American Folklife Center symposium, 2018-06-04 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     This panel discussion highlights a collaborative initiative to digitally restore, provide access to and curate the oldest recordings in the Library of Congress collections, the 1890s wax cylinder recordings of the Passamaquoddy tribal nation of Maine. The collaboration involves the Passamaquoddy community, the American Folklife Center and university-based digital platforms -- the Mukurtu content management system and Local Contexts, which develops Traditional Knowledge (TK)...
    • Contributor: Tomah, Dwayne - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Soctomah, Donald - Anderson, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth) - Christen, Kimberly A. - Saylor, Nicole - Peterson, Betsy - American Folklife Center - Shankar, Guha
    • Date: 2018