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Showing posts with label Library of Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library of Congress. Show all posts
Thursday, January 05, 2023

The Library of Congress Recognizes Rita Dove for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry

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Rita Dove, the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, received the 2022 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Nation...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Princeton professor named country's next poet laureate

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Tracy K. Smith has a long list of accomplishments, from publishing three books of poetry to winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and sh...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

Library of Congress, Smithsonian buy newly discovered photo of Harriet Tubman

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An old photo album containing a rare portrait of the legendary underground railroad conductor Harriet Tubman has been jointly acquired b...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Dr. Carla D. Hayden: First African-American Librarian Of Congress

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Senate Confirms Carla Hayden as 14th Librarian of Congress The United States Senate today by a vote of 74-18 confirmed Dr. Carl...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Rosa Parks archive fully digitized by Library of Congress, now available online.

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Rosa Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs has been fully digitized by the Library of Congress and is now ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Rosa Parks' archive opening to public at Library of Congress

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[ SOURCE ] Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt to be treated less than eq...