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Geraldine Brooks – on life, love and loss – at the Library

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/06/geraldine-brooks/

Published: June 8, 2026 13:00

Geraldine Brooks, the the 2025 recipient of the Library’s Prize for American Fiction, talked about her 10 books, her career as a foreign correspondent and her marriage to the late Tony Horwitz, a fellow reporter, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, during a…

The Moon map that made history

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/06/the-moon-map-that-made-history/

Published: June 3, 2026 13:00

The moon always has been an object of fascination for mankind, but once President John F. Kennedy pledged in 1961 that the U.S. would send a manned spacecraft there within a decade, one of the first questions was entirely practical: Where would they land?…

The Go-Go’s bring “Beauty and the Beat” to the National Recording Registry

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Published: June 1, 2026 14:54

Nearly half a century after its release, The Go-Go's "Beauty and the Beat" is still the only Billboard No. 1 album by an all-female rock group who wrote and performed their own material. This year, the album joins the 2026 class of the National Recording…

Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/ralph-ellisons-invisible-man/

Published: May 26, 2026 18:15

Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" created a stir when it was published in 1952 and is still regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. Here, you can see some of his edits to the famous opening lines. The Library preserves Ellison's papers, including…

Rosanne Cash: A family history in the National Recording Registry

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/rosanne-cash-a-family-history-in-the-national-recording-registry/

Published: May 22, 2026 13:00

When there’s a statue of your dad on Capitol Hill, it’s probably inevitable that you think about things like history and legacy and preservation, so Rosanne Cash was particularly moved when one of her albums was inducted into the National Recording…

Jewish Life in 1776: A Revolutionary Moment

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/jewish-life-in-1776-a-revolutionary-moment/

Published: May 18, 2026 14:44

The Library observes both Jewish American Heritage Month and the nation's approaching 250th birthday this year by focusing on a little-remembered aspect of the Revolution: the Jewish merchants in the tiny Caribbean island of St. Eustatius who shipped in…

2026 National Recording Registry: You Can “Put a Ring on It”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/2026-national-recording-registry-you-can-put-a-ring-on-it/

Published: May 14, 2026 12:52

The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were announced today, bringing everything from Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” Weezer’s self-titled debut “Weezer (The Blue Album),” José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” and 22 other recordings into…

Vintage baseball cards you can use!

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Published: May 7, 2026 14:16

The Library’s Benjamin K. Edwards collection features some 2,100 baseball cards from 1887 to 1914 and are part of the Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free images that you can use any way you’d like. The cards include future Hall of…

Preserving the 175,000 FSA photographs, one at a time

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/preserving-the-175000-fsa-photographs-one-at-a-time/

Published: May 5, 2026 13:00

The Library's 16-year-long project to complete the high-resolution digitization of all 175,000 images in the historic Farm Security Administration files is nearing its end. Fewer than 15,000 negatives remain to be scanned and uploaded to the Library's…

Celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday!

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/celebrating-the-nations-250th-birthday/

Published: May 1, 2026 17:44

The Library invites you to join "It's Your Story," our ongoing celebration of the nation's 250th birthday this year. It's anchored by a new exhibition called “The Declaration’s Promise,” which opens on July 3, just before the Fourth of July official…