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    Film, Video
    Proyecto de Historia de los Veteranos: Estás invitado (español) La Biblioteca del Congreso lo invita a visitar el sitio web renovado del Proyecto de Historia de los Veteranos, donde el público puede acceder a relatos de primera mano compartidos por veteranos militares estadounidenses. Vea este video para aprender cómo buscar colecciones en el sitio web es fácil y se puede completar en unos pocos pasos. Realizar una búsqueda sencilla de la colección es...
    • Contributor: Narrador
    • Date: 2023-12-01
  • Film, Video
    Veterans History Project: You're Invited (English) The Library of Congress invites you to visit the revamped website of the Veterans History Project, where firsthand accounts shared by U.S. military veterans are accessible to the public. View this video to learn how searching the collections on the website is easy and can be completed in a few steps. Performing a simple search of the collection is easy. First, go to LOC.gov/vets....
    • Contributor: Narrator
    • Date: 2023-12-01
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    A Love Letter to Leonard Bernstein from Wife Felicia Leonard Bernstein himself started giving the Library of Congress his music manuscripts in the 1950s. After Bernstein's death in 1990, his estate and family donated hundreds of thousands of additional items, providing the bulk of the collection, which now also includes: correspondence, writings, photographs, business papers, fan mail, datebooks, even his wedding suit and the suit he wore at his unexpected debut conducting the...
    • Contributor: Horowitz, Mark
    • Date: 2023-11-17
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    An Evening with Simon Schama and Atul Gawande Writer, surgeon and public health leader Atul Gawande joined writer and public intellectual Simon Schama to discuss Schama's latest book, "Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations." The conversation explored the complex and surprising history of pandemics in the 18th and 19th centuries and its relevance to our current struggles with COVID-19 today.
    • Contributor: Gawande, Atul - Schama, Simon
    • Date: 2023-11-16
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    'Mascot' and Native American Heritage To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, renowned children's authors Traci Sorrell and Charles Waters discussed their book "Mascot," dealing with a community grappling with their school's mascot: is it tradition, or does it need an update? How do we resolve the ways that Native Americans are portrayed in history books vs. their lived experiences and contemporary lives?
    • Contributor: Sorrell, Traci - Waters, Charles
    • Date: 2023-11-16
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    A Big Deal: The Role of Heresthetic in Negotiating the Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Kluge Center's Kevin Butterfield interviewed Kluge Fellow in Congressional Policymaking Alex P. Smith on the events that produced the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and identified negotiation strategies used to overcome stalemate in the U.S. Congress.
    • Contributor: Butterfield, Kevin - Smith, Alex
    • Date: 2023-11-16
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    Qohelet-Ecclesiastes: Searching for a Life Worth Living The event celebrated and shared the book, "Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living," with illuminations and commentary by Debra Band and philosophical commentary by Menahem Fisch. The book provides an artistic and philosophical re-interpretation of the Book of Ecclesiastes.
    • Contributor: Fisch, Menahem - Band, Debra
    • Date: 2023-11-15
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    'Native America: Language Is Life' Panel Discussion From Hollywood films on the big screen to sacred writing deep within the Earth, from long-lost voices captured in wax cylinders, Native people are fighting to keep their languages and ways of life alive. Though many of the approximately 170 Native languages spoken across the United States remain at risk today, it is a time of hope. A revolutionary effort to revitalize traditional languages...
    • Contributor: Soctomah, Donald - Glassman, Gary - Golding, Daniel
    • Date: 2023-11-09
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    Charly Lowry: Lumbee-Tuscarora Singer and Songwriter Charly Lowry is a dynamic singer-songwriter from Pembroke, North Carolina. An Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee and Tuscarora Tribes, sheconsiders her work a platform for raising awareness around issues that plague underdeveloped and underserved Native communities. Lowry is a songwriter who accompanies herself on acoustic and electric guitars and Native American hand drum. She earned a semi-finalist spot on season 3 of American...
    • Contributor: Rugala, Gary - Lowry, Charly - Mackay, Andrew Ferrier - Miller, Derek
    • Date: 2023-11-09
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    Veterans History Project: Your Story If you're an LGBTQ+ veteran, your memories are important. Share your story with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, where firsthand accounts from U.S. military veterans are preserved and made accessible for researchers and future generations. Visit loc.gov/vets today to submit your stories, photographs and documents.
    • Contributor: Narrator
    • Date: 2023-11-08
  • Film, Video
    Proyecto de historia de los veteranos: su historia Si eres un veterano LGBTQ+, tus recuerdos son importantes. Comparta su historia con el Proyecto de Historia de los Veteranos de la Biblioteca del Congreso, donde se conservan relatos de primera mano de veteranos militares de los Estados Unidos y se ponen a disposición de investigadores y generaciones futuras. Visite loc.gov/vets hoy para enviar sus historias, fotografías y documentos.
    • Contributor: Narrador
    • Date: 2023-11-08
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    Armenian Print Tradition in the Early Modern Period From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in 1800, Armenian presses operated in 19 locations across the Armenian diaspora. Sebouh Aslanian explores why certain books were published at certain times, how books were sold across the diaspora, who read them, and how the printed word helped fashion a new collective identity for...
    • Contributor: Aslania, Sebouh
    • Date: 2023-11-08
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    El Camino del Mole a New Orleans El Camino del Mole a New Orleans chronicles the story of Ivan Castillo, originally from Veracruz, who immigrated to New Orleans after Katrina. He began working in clean up and reconstruction but soon moved to the restaurant industry. He worked in multiple kitchens, then as head cook in a Honduran-owned restaurant. In pursuit of more autonomy, he opened a street food vending business in...
    • Contributor: Gissela Maldonado, Saira - Cortez, Ivan Castillo - Flores, Gilberto - Donnelly, Briyith
    • Date: 2023-11-07
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    El Camino del Pan a Baltimore El Camino del Pan a Baltimore chronicles the life of José Vargas, owner of a bakery and taqueria located in Highlandtown, a neighborhood in East Baltimore. Vargas migrated to Baltimore from Huaquechula, Mexico and decided to build on his family tradition of baking bread. Jos??'s story began in Mexico with his family's bakery, but after arriving in Baltimore he established a business selling Mexican...
    • Contributor: Vargas, José
    • Date: 2023-11-07
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    Arthur A. Houghton & the Founding of Harvard's Houghton Library What does Harvard University's rare book library have to do with the Library of Congress? Gary Fitzpatrick discusses Arthur A. Houghton and a forgotten episode in Library of Congress history.
    • Contributor: Fitzpatrick, Gary
    • Date: 2023-11-07
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    Chris Beckett & Alemu Tebeje UK-based poets and translators Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje (in conversation with Ethiopica area specialist Fentahun Tiruneh and African section head Edward Miner) discuss their recently published edited anthology, "Songs We Learn From Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry." The first anthology of Amharic poetry in English translation, "Songs" was shortlisted for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.
    • Contributor: Tebeje, Alemu - Beckett, Chris - Miner, Edward - Tiruneh, Fentahun
    • Date: 2023-11-03
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    Lesia Maruschak: When a Book Holds Your Memory To mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine, artist Lesia Maruschak spoke about her ongoing exploration of memory surrounding this historic event, titled Project MARIA. The project has been hailed by the National Holodomor Genocide Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine) as one of the most important visual arts exhibitions addressing the famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine.
    • Contributor: Maruschak, Lesia - Stillo, Stephanie
    • Date: 2023-11-02
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    Conversation on 'All the Light We Cannot See' A conversation with Anthony Doerr, author of "All the Light We Cannot See," director Shawn Levy and producer Joe Strechay to coincide with the Netflix limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
    • Contributor: Levy, Shawn - Strechay, Joe - Doerr, Anthony - Broughton, Jason
    • Date: 2023-11-01
  • Film, Video
    Access the Digital Stacks On-Site at the Library of Congress Did you know at the Library of Congress, you can access rights-restricted items, such as books, e-journals, newspapers, maps and films, through the on-site digital stacks? In this step-by-step video, we will show you how you can expand your access to the incredible resources at the Library, by accessing the digital stacks.
    • Contributor: Nappier, Marcus
    • Date: 2023-11-01
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    Belinda Huijuan Tang: Exploring Familial and National History in a Fictional Lens Belinda Huijuan Tang, author of the 2022 novel "A Map for the Missing" talked about her endeavor as a writer to recover the dreams and agency of individuals in turbulent political times, in a talk on "The Personal and Political: Exploring Familial and National History in a Fictional Lens."
    • Contributor: Tang, Belinda Huijuan
    • Date: 2023-10-27
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    A Conversation with Louise Penny Louise Penny, author of the award-winning Armand Gamache series of murder mysteries, discusses the habitants of Three Pines with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
    • Contributor: Penny, Louise - Hayden, Carla
    • Date: 2023-10-26
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    Murder, They Wrote Melissa Adelman ("What the Neighbors Saw"), Nick Medina ("Sisters of the Lost Nation") and Sarah Pekkanen ("Gone Tonight") talk about how they concoct murders in their novels.
    • Contributor: Pekkanen, Sarah - Medina, Nick - Adelman, Melissa - Woodard, Desiree
    • Date: 2023-10-26
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    Ernesto Capello: Mapping Mountains Ernesto Capello, professor of Latin American history at Macalester College and author of books and articles on maps and geography, discusses his new book on the challenges of mapping mountains throughout history.
    • Contributor: Capello, Ernesto
    • Date: 2023-10-26
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    Brent Lane on John White's 1585 Map of North Carolina Edward Brent Lane, a professor at Ohio University and a fellow at the Global Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, discusses John White's 1585 map of North Carolina's outer banks.
    • Contributor: Lane, Edward Brent
    • Date: 2023-10-26
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    Carla Hayden in Conversation with Sir Roly Keating The chief executive of the British Library and Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discuss how national libraries are vital to connecting and engaging with users, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the British Library.
    • Contributor: Keating, Roly - Hayden, Carla
    • Date: 2023-10-25