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Holy “Texas Chainsaw,” it’s the 2024 National Film Registry!

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/holy-texas-chainsaw-its-the-2024-national-film-registry/

Published: December 17, 2024 17:29

The 2024 National Film Registry includes 25 films selected for their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance to the nation's history. This year's entries include major hits such as "The Social Network," "No Country for Old Men," and "Beverly Hills…

How Johnny Marks, King of Christmas Hits, Made “Rudolph” a Classic

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/how-johnny-marks-king-of-christmas-hits-made-rudolph-a-classic/

Published: December 11, 2024 14:00

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” went without a song for years, from the tail end of the Depression through World War II and nearly until the midcentury before a musician named Johnny Marks began to consider it. Marks studied music in college in the 1920s,…

Lift a Glass to Holiday Drinks Gone By

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/lift-a-glass-to-holiday-drinks-gone-by/

Published: December 9, 2024 14:00

Cheers to a list of favorite holiday drinks from long-ago mixology books in Library collections as curated by J.J. Harbster, head of the Science Reference Section. You can try the Baltimore Egg Nog from 1862, but we'll opt for the bourbon-based Frosted…

Origins: Mark Twain’s Famous White Suit

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/origins-mark-twains-famous-white-suit/

Published: December 5, 2024 13:49

In the winter of 1906, Mark Twain was a tired and grieving man. He was 71. The past dozen years had been brutal. He had gone bankrupt in the mid-1890s. Then his 24-year-old daughter died from spinal meningitis. Then his beloved wife, Olivia, suffered…

The AIDS Quilt: Digitized at the Library

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/the-aids-quilt-digitized-at-the-library/

Published: December 2, 2024 16:24

The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience.

Native American Languages, Alive at the Library

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/11/native-american-languages-alive-at-the-library/

Published: November 29, 2024 14:00

This is a guest post by Barbara Bair, a historian in the Manuscript Division. She most recently wrote about Ralph Ellison’s photography work. Two important collections of Native American heritage have been digitized and placed on the Library’s website,…

Scott Joplin & the Magical “Maple Leaf Rag”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/11/scott-joplin-the-magical-maple-leaf-rag/

Published: November 21, 2024 14:00

Legendary ragtime composer Scott Joplin died in poverty at age 48 in 1917 and left few personal artifacts behind; only three photographs of him are known to exist. The song that made him famous was the spirited "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899. So 125 years later,…

Publishing at the Library, with Aimee Hess

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/11/publishing-at-the-library-with-aimee-hess/

Published: November 15, 2024 14:00

In this edition of "My Job" at the Library, Aimee Hess talks about her work in editing and producing books that highlight the Library’s collections. She oversees the Library's Crime Classics series, has written two books in the "Women Who Dare" series and…