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• PBS affiliates, local schools do their part

  - 2007-10-03

  A number of PBS affiliates across the USA, inspired by the release of Ken Burns' The War, are producing mini-documentaries about their own local war stories and encouraging high school and college students to collect oral histories. The materials they gather are being sent to the...

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• Where to find information

  - 2007-09-13

  Here are three Web sites where newspaper projects are being conducted: University of Utah -- www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/ Library of Congress -- www.loc.gov/rr/news/ United States Newspapers -- www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html

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• Military Legal Resources Site at Library of Congress

  - 2006-06-01

  The Library of Congress Federal Research Division hosts a Military Legal Resources page on its public Web site. Launched in July 2003, the site is at www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/military-legal-resources-home.html. The division is the fee-for-service research and analysis group in the Library of Congress that provides its services to executive- and...

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• The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.digitalpreservation.gov) and the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov) have awarded a total of $3 million to eight university teams to support research r

  - 2005-07-01

  The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (www.digitalpreservation.gov) and the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov) have awarded a total of $3 million to eight university teams to support research related to the long-term management of digital information. The two agencies formed the grant...

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• French, US libraries launch website on French history in America

  - 2005-05-10

  PARIS AFP — The US Library of Congress and the French National Library have joined forces to launch a bilingual website exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the 16th to early 19th centuries. The site, which includes more than 100,000 images from the rare...

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• Dumas Malone

  - 2005-01-01

  Dumas Malone American historian and editor Dumas Malone (1892-1986) is known chiefly for a multi-volume, landmark biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, which garnered the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. He also contributed widely to other literature about the third U.S. president. But he did not apply his scholarly versatility only...

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• Source material: sequestered from the court of history: the Kissinger transcripts.

  - 2004-12-01

  Upon leaving office in 1976, Henry Kissinger donated the records of his telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders to the Library of Congress as his private property under restrictive terms that sealed them until after his death. Against claims that the materials were public documents or Nixon historical materials. Kissinger fought...

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• Commentary: Library of Congress is national treasure

  - 2004-07-07

  Anticipating the celebration of our nation's 228th birthday, my rekindled patriotic spirit initially wanted to find out more about the first Continental Congress. While looking on the Internet, however, I subsequently became intrigued with the unique and interesting history of the Library of Congress. I learned...

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• US immortalizes The Beatles and The Boss in its sonic treasury

  - 2004-03-19

  WASHINGTON AFP ? Music by the Fab Four and The Boss has been enshrined in the US sonic treasury, along with president John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and a radio broadcast of the 1941 World Series baseball championship, the Library of Congress said. Releasing its list of the 50...

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• Library aims to save digital data

  - 2003-02-15

  WASHINGTON -- Here's the flip side of the digital age's magic act: It's also making information disappear. "The digital history of this nation is imperiled by the very technology that is used to create it," said Librarian of Congress James Billington. So Friday the Library of...

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