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Today in History – August 3 Christopher Columbus , Calvin Coolidge – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Replica of Santa Maria. c1904. Detroit Publishing Company. Prints & Photographs Division On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set out on his first voyage to what came to be known as the New World.Read More

Sweden: Supreme Court Defines Negligent Rape

By Global Legal Monitor, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (July 17, 2019) On July 11, 2019, Sweden’s Supreme Court issued its first judgment in relation to the country’s amended rape legislation, finding Read More

Timothy O’Sullivan and the Shoshone Falls – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (PHOTOS)

Mr. Sullivan [i.e. O’Sullivan]. Photo by Wheeler & Angerman, circa 1873. //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31600Details about the life of Irish American photographer Timothy O’Sullivan are sparse. He was either born in New York Read More

NORWAY: Parliament Votes in Favor of Dual Citizenship

Global Legal Monitor LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (Feb. 6, 2019) On December 6, 2018, the Norwegian Parliament passed a bill that will allow Norwegians to hold dual citizenship. Specifically the amended Read More

NORWAY: Parliament Votes in Favor of Dual Citizenship

Global Legal Monitor LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (Feb. 6, 2019) On December 6, 2018, the Norwegian Parliament passed a bill that will allow Norwegians to hold dual citizenship. Specifically the amended Read More

Did Galileo Own the Library’s Copy of ‘The Starry Messenger’?

February 1, 2019 By Carla D. Hayden, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A partial handprint is visible on the bottom of this page from near the end of “The Starry Messenger.” Asking Read More

Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut: Austrian-American Stars of Stage and Screen

January 29, 2019 by Cait Miller, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut in Wilhelm Schmidtbonn’s The Prodigal Son produced by Max Reinhart, Berlin, 1913. Schildkraut Scrapbook II (1867-1921), Music Division. The following is Read More

Bourbon Whiskey was a science – LIBRARY OF SCIENCE

On the Subject of Bourbon Whiskey: Charring Oak Barrels was no Accident – it was Science January 29, 2019 by Ellen Terrell This post was written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley,Read More

Poetry of the City

By Peter Armenti, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence Read More

Today in History January 28: Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe By LIBRARY OF CONGRESS On January 28, 1908, author and activist Julia Ward Howe, famous for her composition, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” became the first woman Read More