What do Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," Mark Twain's "Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn" and Maurice...Cahn, Emily
But here in the Library of Congress, nearly three-quarters of the books and a large proportion of other materials are in languages other than English. In the United States, a nation of immigrants, of all nations on earth, our national library like our people must be international. Any ...
Library of Congress Twitter Archive http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html English LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain http://librivox.org Free audiobooks: volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the ne...
It was the setting for Generals Washington, Cornwallis & Howe through which to march, as well as the Continental Congress’ passing on its journey westward, after the occupation of Philadelphia by the British. This 3-part talk will be presented by local historian, Jim Segrave-Daly. Jim Se...
Special Collections is part of Library Services. It comprises a Reading Room and several reference only collections including: The Trades Union Congress Library, The University Archive, The Frederick Parker Collection, The Archive of the Irish in Britain, Artists' Books, and oversize (mainly art an...
Dumas for donating a copy to the Philadelphia library saying, “It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising State make it necessary to frequently consult the Law of Nations” and that the book “[had] been continually in the hands of the members of our Congress.” ...
The World Digital Library led by the Library of Congress reached a milestone Thursday, surpassing 10,000 items with the addition of ancient manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Officials said thedigital library's collection has grown to include 10,037 digitized manuscripts, maps, ...
his formula was similar to the infamous clause in the Constitution of the United States that counted each enslaved person as three fifths of a person when calculating a state’s representation in Congress. Just as the three-fifths compromise used the enslaved population to increase the political ...
These books are often referred to as Cather’s “Prairie Trilogy”, as they portray life on the Great Plains, the western part of the flatland in North America between the Appalachian Plateau and the Rocky Mountains. Throughout the 19th century, settlers of mainly European backgrounds migr...
"Building Alaska" (87 min., widescreen, closed captioned) is an extraordinary DVD documentary about the grand engineering projects that shaped the state of Alaska. From the great railroads and highways constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to the invasion of Alaska by the Japane...