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Hans Christian Andersen’s Wild Scrapbooks | Timeless

Hans Christian Andersen created wrote timeless fairy tales (

Primary Documents: The Library’s Amazing Resource for Teachers | Timeless

Since 2006, the Library’s Teaching with Primary Sources program has been empowering educators to make use of the Library’s digitized collections in a vast array of subjects. Lee Ann Potter, the...

Louise Glück, Nobel Prize Winner, Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Dies at 80 | Timeless

Louise Glück, the poet whose often personal, always searching work won the Nobel Prize in 2020 and who served as the U.S. poet laureate for the Library in 2003-2004, has died at the age of 80. Here,...

Hispanic Heritage Month: Two Mexican Stories, Including Dolores del Rio | Timeless

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, which makes it an excellent time to check in on the Library's collection of Free to Use and Reuse images, this time from a set devoted to Hispanic life and culture. We...

Dancing the Danzón: Hispanic Heritage Month | Timeless

Born in 19th-century Cuban dance halls, danzón eventually became the country’s official national dance. Influenced by African and European music and dance traditions, it continues to thrive outside...

Hundreds of Hebrew Manuscripts Now Online | Timeless

The Library recently put online some 230 histortic manuscripts, some of them more than a thousand years old, in Hebrew and similar languages, such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and Yiddish. The...

An African American Family History Like No Other | Timeless

When the Library opens its new Treasures Gallery next year, displaying some of the most striking papers and artifacts that span some 4,000 years, one of them will certainly stand out: The Blackwell's...

Missed You Much: The Library’s ASCAP Concert Bursts Back into Life | Timeless

Pop hits, R&B grooves and Broadway anthems thumped through the Coolidge Auditorium Wednesday night as the We Write the Songs concert burst back into life for the first time in four years, featuring...

Proclaiming a New Nation: The Library’s Copies of the Declaration of Independence | Timeless

After the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the delegates spread the word as quickly as possible by publishing it on a broadside sheet and delivering it...

Fair Winds and Following Seas to You, Jimmy Buffett | Timeless

Jimmy Buffett, whose iconic

The Scenic Route? The Library’s 117-foot Map from 17th-century Japan | Timeless

One of the largest maps in the Library is the Tokaido bunken-ezu, a 117-foot, 17th-century Japanese map painted on two scrolls. It shows, in pen-and-ink detail, the rivers, mountains, forests and...

The March on Washington, Revisited | Timeless

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was 60 years ago today -- August 28, 1963. We look back at that historic day, both at how it developed and its aftermath, in an era when terrorism,...

My Job: Cheryl Regan | Timeless

Cheryl Regan is a veteran of the Library's exhibits office, bringing the treasures of the world's largest library to the public. Here, she answers a few questions about her work with exhibitions such...

The Library Reimagined, with You in Mind | Timeless

George Saunders Accepts the Library’s Prize for American Fiction | Timeless

Novelist, short-story writer and essayist George Saunders was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Saturday evening in one of the final sessions of the 2023 National Book...