Poetry 180: Poem 004 - "Question"

09/05/2025

Poem 004 - "Question"

A poem by May Swenson from the Library's Poetry 180 Project.

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Today in History - September 5

09/05/2025

Today in History - September 5

The infamous Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847. Continue reading.

On September 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers assembled in New York City to participate in America's first Labor Day parade. Continue reading.

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Crys Matthews, Peggy Seeger, Rhiannon Giddens, and “How I Long For Peace”: Archive Challenge Spotlight

09/05/2025

Crys Matthews, Peggy Seeger, Rhiannon Giddens, and “How I Long For Peace”: Archive Challenge Spotlight

09/05/2025 09:28 AM EDT

In 2020, singer-songwriter Crys Matthews participated in the American Folklife Center’s Library of Congress/Folk Alliance International Archive Challenge in New Orleans. The song she selected was “How I Long for Peace,” a song written by Peggy Seeger and sung by Seeger during her concert at the Library of Congress in 2007. Matthews adapted the song for the Archive Challenge, taking inspiration not only from Seeger, but from the spirituals and freedom songs she had heard in church growing up. The song was a highlight of the Archive Challenge that year, so much so that Matthews continued singing it. A few years later, she suggested a collaborative recording of the song to Rhiannon Giddens, a groundbreaking performer and another friend of AFC, who has received a Grammy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, among other accolades. Matthews and Giddens, along with the Resistance Revival Chorus, released their version in 2024. Mostly by coincidence, Peggy Seeger, who had never released an official recording of the song, revisited it in 2021. In this blog, we’ll present the story of this special archive challenge, with Crys Matthews’s Archive Challenge video embedded, and links to the Peggy Seeger version from 2007, the version with Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Chorus, and Peggy Seeger’s 2021 interpretation.

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Israel: Family Court Authorizes Use of Fallen Soldier’s Sperm to Impregnate Surrogate Chosen by Man’s Mother

09/05/2025

Israel: Family Court Authorizes Use of Fallen Soldier’s Sperm to Impregnate Surrogate Chosen by Man’s Mother

09/05/2025 10:06 AM EDT

On July 3, 2025, Israel’s Eilat Family Court authorized the use of sperm taken from the body of 19-year-old Israeli soldier shortly after his death in combat to fertilize the eggs of a woman to be chosen by his mother. The court determined that the son’s presumed desire for the posthumous use of his sperm …

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[approved list] LCSH/LCC Approved Lists 2501c and 2502c

09/05/2025

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Open a Box: Behind the Scenes with a Prints & Photographs Staff Challenge

09/05/2025

Open a Box: Behind the Scenes with a Prints & Photographs Staff Challenge

09/05/2025 11:17 AM EDT

Every other month, staff in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division come together for a “Learning Hour,” a time dedicated to knowledge sharing, training, and discussion. This month’s session took the form of a challenge: each participant opened an unfamiliar box from the collections and reported back on what they discovered. How is the collection arranged and described? What might a researcher encounter when using it? How could access be improved? This week’s post highlights some of the insights that emerged from that exercise.

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From Bologna to Istanbul: An Armenian Edition of Giovanni Aldini’s Fire Safety Manual

09/05/2025

From Bologna to Istanbul: An Armenian Edition of Giovanni Aldini’s Fire Safety Manual

09/05/2025 01:17 PM EDT

Aldini’s Italian manual on fire safety was published in 1833. It offered detailed instructions, diagrams, and practical strategies for surviving and preventing fires. Yet two years before its publication, an Armenian version of the same manual was printed by the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic monastic order, in Venice.

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