Visitors may choose to shelter with staff or depart the building once the drill begins. Uruguay is often portrayed as a “white nation,”...

The division’s Hebraic Section is one of the world’s foremost centers for the study of Hebrew and Yiddish materials. Helena Zinkham has...

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married, but with no memory of her husband's...

the center was created to bring together the world’s best thinkers to stimulate and energize one another, to distill wisdom from the...

Johnson has distilled the essence of the text and the tradition into an unforgettably intense evocation of the Crucifixion as relived in...

But while the first book told us why the states look as they do, this book tells us who shaped them. Stein will discuss and sign his new...

Fifty years later, the Vietnam War remains part of the nation’s collective consciousness. For the veterans who served during this era,...

Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” (1903) Jack London’s experiences during the Klondike gold rush in the Yukon were the inspiration for...

I read with passion Karl Mannheim’s books on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning." The seduction of ‘great...

“The World Digital Library has made it possible for people of all cultures to look at the gems of each other’s learning and art in any of...

His photographs are represented in many public and private collections, and his book “Black in White America,” published in 1967-68, was...

She was also appointed as U.S. Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress in 1985. Benjamin Spock, “The Common Sense Book of Baby and...

Essays, focused on a single book, should be one page in length and must be submitted with an entry form, in person, at participating...

“Burke and Britons: Edmund Burke and the Irish Other in 18th-Century Cartoons.” In tracing the rise of chauvinism and xenophobia in...

The Washington Post and Wells Fargo; Patrons the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS KIDS; Contributors AT&T and Digital Bookmobile...

From 1990 to 1992, Watson also served as head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health. He has written many...

The exhibition curators from the Music Division are Raymond A. White and James E. Wintle. The exhibition director from the Library’s...

OCLC offers subscribers WebDewey, a service that provides subscribers online access to the web-based version of the Dewey Decimal...

A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry, York also received the 2005 Elixir Prize in...

History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey” (2007). He serves as treasurer for the Executive Council of the...