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Stories from the Library of Congress
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“LatinoLand” and Hispanic Heritage Month
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/latinoland-and-hispanic-heritage-month/
Published: October 9, 2024 13:00
Peruvian American author Marie Arana's new book "LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority," offers a timely exploration of Latino culture during Hispanic Heritage Month. She, and her book, were featured during the 2024…
The Season of Edgar Allan Poe: Autumn, Halloween and The Falling Darkness
Published: October 7, 2024 13:00
Edgar Allan Poe died 175 years ago today, on Oct. 7, 1849. Here, we revisit the first publication of his poetic masterpiece, "The Raven" and the tragic circumstances (his dying young wife) that led to him writing it.
Finding Latinos in Film
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/finding-latinos-in-film/
Published: October 3, 2024 13:00
In his epic “El Norte,” award-winning filmmaker Gregory Nava charted the tragic journey of siblings Enrique and Rosa from Guatemala to Los Angeles in pursuit of the American dream. The 1983 film was inducted into the Library's National Film Registry in…
The Great Pyramid of Pei
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/the-great-pyramid-of-pei/
Published: October 1, 2024 13:00
In 1983, Chinese American architect I.M. Pei was commissioned to devise a solution to a growing problem in France: the outdated entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris no longer could accommodate increasing throngs of visitors. His solution of a glass…
Ada LimĂłn & Poetry in the National Parks!
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/ada-limon-poetry-in-the-national-parks/
Published: September 26, 2024 13:00
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón kicked off her "You Are Here: Poetry in the Parks" project at several National Parks around the country this summer, from Cape Cod to California. With installations in the parks, she's hoping to showcase "the ways reading and…
Richard Morris Hunt: Architect of the Gilded Age
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/richard-morris-hunt-architect-of-the-gilded-age/
Published: September 24, 2024 13:00
Richard Morris Hunt was perhaps the most influential American architect of the late 19th century. He went to Paris to study, then returned to spread the Beaux-Arts gospel and give America architecture that matched its ambitions. He designed castles that…
Louis Bayard’s Novel Research at the Library
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/louis-bayards-novel-research-at-the-library/
Published: September 18, 2024 13:00
Bestselling author Louis Bayard has written nine historical novels over the past two decades and has researched them all at the Library, poring over maps, sorting through personal love letters, consulting societal details of the lost worlds that he brings…
Ralph Ellison, Photographer
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/ralph-ellison-photographer/
Published: September 17, 2024 13:50
For a brief time before the success of “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison worked as a freelance photographer. He took portraits for publishers and covered events for newspapers. Even after he became celebrated as a novelist, he still took photography…
Inventing the Capitol Building
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/inventing-the-capitol-building/
Published: September 12, 2024 13:00
The U.S. Capitol building, the worldwide symbol of American democracy, got its beginnings on a piece of paper on the Caribbean island of Tortola, sketched out by a temperamental doctor in his early 30s. William Thornton's "Tortola Scheme" sketch laid the…