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Chef to the Senate: Gottlieb Baumgartner
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/08/chef-to-the-senate-gottlieb-baumgartner/
Published: August 26, 2025 19:00
The Senate restaurant in the U.S. Capitol, known for its famed bean soup, has had its fair share of international chefs at its helm, including Swiss Chef Gottlieb Baumgartner, who worked as the head chef of the Senate restaurant from 1919 to 1937. Read…
Back to School: Comic Book Stories Part 3
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/08/back-to-school-comic-book-stories-part-3/
Published: August 13, 2025 14:14
Summer break is in its final days and that means…there is still time to read some comics! Let’s start this year’s sampling with a few comic book stories about college. Aquaman was quite the studious kind in his younger days, much like his DC colleagues,…
Everything is Peachy: Summer Recipes from Historic Newspapers
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/07/everything-is-peachy-summer-recipes-from-historic-newspapers/
Published: July 31, 2025 15:00
Peaches are a summertime delight. Take a look through some of the sweet and savory recipes from our historic American newspapers featuring peaches along with some classic peach "salads."
AHHA! Firsts in Black and African American Cartoons and Comics
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/06/ahha-firsts-in-black-and-african-american-cartoons-and-comics/
Published: June 26, 2025 14:04
While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), Lucy Havens researched the representation of Black cartoon and comic creators in the Library’s Comic Book Collection. Here she highlights a handful of…
250 Years Ago: The Battle of Bunker Hill
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/06/250-years-ago-the-battle-of-bunker-hill/
Published: June 12, 2025 19:00
In the dark of night on June 16, 1775, colonial soldiers worked hard to dig, build and fortify the area around Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill outside of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to prepare for the battle the next day. Read about the Battle of Bunker Hill…
Improving Machine-Readable Text for Newspapers in Chronicling America
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/ocr-reprocessing/
Published: April 29, 2025 17:00
The Library of Congress has launched a new project to improve the text supporting keyword searches in Chronicling America. Read about our recent work and future plans to make this valuable historical collection easier to explore.
250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/250-years-ago-news-of-the-battles-of-lexington-and-concord/
Published: April 17, 2025 18:00
On April 21, 1775, The New-Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle published an article titled “Bloody News,” reporting the first hostilities of what would become the Revolutionary War. On April 19, 1775, British troops fired on the men of the Lexington…
AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/ahha-discovering-black-hispanic-and-indigenous-comic-book-creators/
Published: April 3, 2025 16:13
The following is a guest post by Regan Chambers-Kleiner who recently interned at the Library in the Serial and Government Publications Division as a part of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA). From September to November,…
AHHA Intern Spotlight: Jala Robertson
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/03/ahha-intern-spotlight-jala-robertson/
Published: March 18, 2025 19:30
This fall, the Serial and Government Publications Division's Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) intern, Jala Robertson, researched and wrote 10 research guides about African American and Hispanic American people and groups using the…
Top Five Tips for Using the Image Viewer
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/03/using-the-image-viewer/
Published: March 11, 2025 14:00
In Chronicling America's new interface, the image viewer provides tools to help you inspect and interactive with each individual newspaper page. Here are our top five tips for navigating, clipping, and sharing!