2013 Videos
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Film, VideoA Book That Shaped Me Contest: 2013 National Book Festival "A Book That Shaped Me" is a summer writing contest that encourages rising fifth and sixth graders to reflect on a book that has had a personal impact on their lives. The contest is administered through local public library systems in the Mid-Atlantic region top winners read their essays and were honored during this special program at the 2013 National Book Festival.- Date: 2013-09-22
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Film, Video2013 Américas Award Author and Emmy Award-winning actress Sonia Manzano, known to millions of Americans as "Maria" on Sesame Street, received the Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in a ceremony at the Library of Congress.- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, Video2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: Introduction & David Baldacci Best-selling authors and literacy advocates David Baldacci was a featured speaker at the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, Video2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: Reach Out & Read The Reach Out and Read organization is the 2013 recipient of the David M Rubenstein Prize, one of three Library of Congress Literacy Awards.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, Video2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: 826 National 826 National is the recipient of the American Prize, one of three 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, Video2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: PlanetRead PlanetRead is the recipient of the International Prize, one of three 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, Video2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards: James Patterson & Closing Best-selling author and literacy advocate James Patterson was a featured speaker at the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoAct of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works & How It Doesn't A look behind the scenes of a congressional legislative negotiation is revealed through the prism of a single bill -- the Dodd-Frank Act -- in a book by author and Washington Post editor Robert Kaiser.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoThe Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music Tom Piazza discussed his new book, "The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music."- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoWhatever Happened to the Washington Reporters? Stephen Hess surveys how journalism has changed between the publication of his first book on Washington journalists in 1978 to today, in conjunction with the release of his new book.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoLincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History John Fabian Witt signed and discussed his book, "Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History," which describes Lincoln's development of a code regulating conduct in war whose articles later became the basis for a new international law of war.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoA Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox: Johannes Schöner & the Revolution of Modern Science 1475-1550 John Hessler discusses Renaissance cartographer Johannes Schöner.- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2013