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Jun 19
For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: loc.gov/collections/sl… Photos:
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Jun 17
On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in the U.S. on a boat, in pieces. The Library’s Historic American Engineering Record collection has some amazing photos of Lady Liberty from odd angles, taken in 1984 and 1985 during a major restoration project ahead of her
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Jun 16
Happy #Bloomsday, James Joyce fans! To celebrate, we're bringing you the story of how we found out which colors were used to achieve the famed "Ulysses blue." ⬇️
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Ineluctable Modality of the Visible and the Infrared: A Spectral Study of Joyce’s Ulysses Blue |...
June 16th, the day of commemoration of author James Joyce, calls for a certain shade of blue. Not just any blue, but that blue. The iconic cover of Ulysses. This Bloomsday, we follow the color rather...
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Jun 15
MAGAZINE MONDAY | Alexander Graham Bell’s crude sketches of his new invention — the telephone — belie the world-changing impact it would unleash. And it debuted at a centennial celebration of America in 1876.
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Inventing Telephones at the Centennial
A very American, and messy, story of innovation and progress.
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Jun 12
There's a lot of Pride history held at the Library, including this footage of some of the first NYC pride events in 1970, from the Lilli M. Vincenz Collection. The full 12 minutes of footage and other Pride resources from the Library are linked below. 🧵
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Jun 12
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Serving in Silence: LGBTQ+ Veterans | Diverse Experiences in Service | Serving: Our Voices |...
While military service oftentimes demands sacrifices from those in uniform, historically, LGBTQ+ veterans have faced a unique set of challenges. For many of these veterans, following a call to serve...
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Jun 12
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Resources | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month | Library of Congress
Events Thomas Mallon on the Early Days of the HIV/AIDS Crisis Novelist Thomas Mallon will talk about his just-published book, "The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994" with Library Literary...
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Jun 11
The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today. Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new
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Jun 10
Make some paper with us at the Library of Congress! We make paper at the Library to create a body of reference samples for material science research. This research helps support the preservation of our collections.
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Jun 9
As the world prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup to begin, check out this poster in the Library's collections from the very first World Cup, hosted by Uruguay in 1930! Learn about the history of the World Cup with this new Library Research Guide: guides.loc.gov/world-cup?locl…
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Jun 8
MAGAZINE MONDAY | By 1864, eight decades after the Revolution’s end, only a dozen or so veterans survived. Two Connecticut brothers tracked some of them down, and captured their portraits as cartes de visite. Read more:
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Last Men of the Revolution
Photos capture the last living faces of the War of Independence.
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Jun 5
This weekend, June 6, marks the anniversary of D-Day. Images from the U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photo collection at the Library of Congress show scenes from New York City as Americans learned the news in various ways, including from a news ticker
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Jun 4
Congress approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states to ratify on this day in 1919. Whenever a new state voted in favor, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) sewed a star on this giant flag. 🧵
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Jun 4
Tennessee, the 36th and final state needed for ratification, voted yes in August 1920. This image shows Alice Paul, the NWP's leader, unfurling the "ratification flag" from the suffrage headquarters on that day. The Library of Congress is home to the NWP records and library
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Jun 3
For World Bicycle Day: Bicycle advertisements were prolific in the 19th and early 20th century, just as automobile ads are today. Here are a few beautiful ones from the Library of Congress collection.
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Jun 1
Magazine Monday | For America's 250th birthday, a new Library exhibition will explore the impact and meaning of the Declaration of Independence across hundreds of years of American history.
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‘The Declaration’s Promise’
New exhibition explores the foundational principles of the Declaration of Independence.
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