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  • Panoramic Mapping - Panoramic Maps

    The tradition of perspective mapping flowered in Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Mathias Merian, George Braun, Franz Hogenberg, and others produced perspective maps of European cities. These early ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • Septimus Winner (1827-1902)

    Biography. In addition to his music writing and publishing, Winner was a frequent contributor to Graham's Magazine, at that time edited by Edgar Allen Poe. He wrote a book of poetry, published ...

    Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
    Original Format: Web Page

  • History Of Railroads And Maps - Railroad Maps 1828 To 1900

    Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-10-19

  • Religion and the Congress of the Confederation - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

    The Continental-Confederation Congress, a legislative body that governed the United States from 1774 to 1789, contained a number of deeply religious men. Although the Articles of Confederation did not officially authorize Congress ...

    Contributor: Matteson, Harrison Tompkins - Polk, Charles Peale - Franklin, Benjamin - Jefferson, Thomas - Zeisberger, David
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1998-06-04

  • Reynolds Family - Tilton C Reynolds Papers

    Tilton C. Reynolds was born to Thomas and Juliana Reynolds of Winslow Township (later Reynoldsville), Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1843. He was the eldest of seven children. Upon the organization of the ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1861-01-01

  • Samuel Barber, 1910-1981

    Biography. Barber's hallmark among American composers lies in the fact that he embraced his lyrical and expressive compositional style and shunned nearly all of the experimental trends that penetrated music in the ...

    Site: Performing Arts Encyclopedia
    Original Format: Web Page

  • From Magna Carta on Trial to the Holy Experiment

    You are an impertinent fellow, will you teach the court what law is? It is 'Lex non scripta,' that which many have studied 30 or 40 years to know, and would you ...

    Contributor: Dorn, Nathan
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 2013-02-19

  • History Of Mapping The Civil War - Civil War Maps

    War, like necessity, has been called the mother of invention. The same might be said of cartography, for with every war there is a great rush to produce maps to aid in ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2008-08-04

  • History Of The Pennsylvania Volunteers - Tilton C Reynolds Papers

    --> 1861 September 9 The 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers is organized under the authority of Colonel Amor A. McKnight in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Soldiers are recruited largely from Jefferson County, thus acquiring ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1861-01-01

  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln was the second speaker on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln was preceded on the podium by the famed orator ...

    Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1863-01-01

  • Religion and the American Revolution - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

    Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British--an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of ...

    Contributor: Galloway, Joseph - Cipriani, Giovanni - Mayhew, Jonathan - Trumbull, Faith Robinson - Keteltas, Abraham - Ogden, Henry Alexander - Richardson, Edward W. - Peale, Rembrant - Peale, Charles Wilson - Odell, Jonathan - White, William
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1998-06-04

  • Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture - Shaping Forces

    Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and grew up in a household that included three generations. Margaret's early home life, with emphases on education and social issues, exerted ...

    Contributor: Mead, Margaret - Francis, Patricia A.
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 2001-11-30

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law Pic of the Week

    During the visit, I snapped this picture of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law surrounded by a blanket of snow.

    Contributor: Weber, Andrew
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 2013-02-01

  • Panoramic Artists And Publishers - Panoramic Maps

    The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division holds panoramic maps done by Albert Ruger, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, Lucien R. Burleigh, Henry Wellge, and Oakley H. Bailey who were among the most ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • Overview - Tilton C Reynolds Papers

    A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 1851-01-01

  • Declaration of Independence: Right to Institute New Government

    Drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 became the defining event in Thomas Jefferson's life. Drawing on documents, such as the Virginia Declaration of Rights, state and local calls for independence, and ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page
    Date: 2000-04-24

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