“Modern urban popular music has been particularly affected by this wellspring of Afro-American creativity,” says music director Carmen...

The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to “preserve and present American...

Nominations for the registry were gathered from members of the public, who submitted suggestions online and from the National Recording...

Before his appointment at George Washington University in 1994, he served on the faculty at Cornell University and was a visiting...

Photographs have been part of the Library’s collections since the early 1850s. Today the Prints and Photographs Division holds...

He has held visiting academic appointments at Yale University and New York University and has been a senior fellow at the Brookings...

Through its efforts, NDIIPP is forming a nationwide “digital preservation network” of partners dedicated to preserving digital content...

The NDL Program’s flagship American Memory project, in collaboration with other institutions nationwide, makes freely available more than...

This program is a collaborative effort that seeks to work with other organizations, institutions, libraries and archives – from both the...

Their work has received seven EMMY awards, a George Foster Peabody and the Cable Ace Award. In 2006 she received a Soros Media Justice...

The program is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed. Guests will be U.S. District Court Judge Henry E....

The Law Library of Congress and Tufts University will present a Mock Congressional Oversight Committee Hearing. The theme is “Inherent...

the symposium is free and open to the public. Welcoming remarks will be made by the Honorable Ryozo Kato, Ambassador Extraordinary and...

Obesity and poor diets are due to social as well as individual factors, and actions to improve diets must be directed toward the food...

He escaped three times and at war’s end was the only non-Caucasian in his POW camp. Kanaya continued to serve his country during the...

His passionate interest in “laborlore”—a term he coined—sparked an interest in research and writing that eventually took him down a...

the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria, Egypt; the National Library of Brazil; the National Library of Egypt; the National Library of...

The presentation also recounts the experience of David Quaid, a news cameraman who documented the war on film for the Signal Corps. Quaid...

Although he is best known for his marches, Sousa composed a variety of music, including operettas, suites, fantasies, vocal works and...

The project will include an oral history component, and will be the first truly comprehensive photographic study of the entire nation...