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Posted by: Travis Hensley
Happy New Year from the Kluge Center. The Center is preparing for a busy and exciting 2015. This year we’ll be celebrating our 15th anniversary and we’ll also be awarding the Kluge Prize. As 2014 came to a close and we embark on 2015, the Center welcomed seven new fellows during the months of December …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a cross-post from the Picture This: Library of Congress Prints and Photos blog. The post is authored by Barbara Orbach Natanson, Head of Reference services for the Library’s Prints & Photographs Division. Pictures can eloquently convey some of the ugliness of war. Creating art can also be a powerful means of communicating the …
Posted in: Health & Medicine, History, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Dan Turello
The quest to reconstruct a lost piece of music from the 1920s took Kluge Fellow Elia Corazza to Venice, New Haven, and finally, to the Library of Congress. Sometimes a few missing pages can make it a challenge to reconstruct an entire work. This was exactly the case when current Kluge Fellow Elia Corazza discovered …
Posted in: Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by historian Benjamin Reed, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Kislak Short-term Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. The Library of Congress holds roughly 68 million manuscripts, so it should come as no surprise to uncover unique and rare materials while …
Posted in: History, Latin America
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Poet and biographer Muriel Rukeyser documented and commented on the seismic events of the 20th century. In her five decades of writing, she captured her experiences as witness to racial inequality in America, the Civil War in Spain, and protests against the Vietnam War. Sarah Chadfield, Ph.D. candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, conducted research in …
Posted in: Literature, Politics