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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Lauren Sinclair, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. On the question of the applicability of scholarship to policy, scholars are sometimes faulted for being out of touch and out of step with the needs of lawmakers. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, winner of the 2012 Kluge Prize, upends …
Posted in: Sociology
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Information scientist Katrin Weller’s research investigates how future historians might use social media as primary source materials, and how such materials should be preserved. One of two inaugural Kluge Fellows in Digital Studies, Weller was in residence at the Library of Congress from January – June 2015. She sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss …
Posted in: Digital Revolution
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and 2007 Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at The John W. Kluge Center. When scholars think about the Library of Congress, they may immediately recall its famous collections that provide rich resources for the study of …
Posted in: Culture & Society
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following story was written by Megan Harris of the Library’s Veterans History Project and was featured in the Library of Congress staff newsletter, The Gazette. It also appeared on the Library of Congress blog under the title “Inquiring Minds: Anna Coleman Ladd and WWI Veterans.” It has been edited. Last month Benjamin King, Maria Ellsworth …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Health & Medicine, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Bruce Jentleson, #ScholarFest participant and 2015-16 Kissinger Chair at Library of Congress Kluge Center. OK, I admit it. I was a skeptic about the “lightning conversation” format for the #ScholarFest commemorating the 15th anniversary of The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Five to seven …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
William Julius Wilson‘s 1978 book “The Declining Significance of Race” argued that economic class had gradually become more important than race in determining the life trajectory of African Americans. During his recent tenure as the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, Wilson re-examined the arguments put forth in his book, to see if they …
Posted in: Sociology
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Dane Kennedy, director of the National History Center, a project of the American Historical Association. It is with a mixture of anticipation and regret that I await the start of the Tenth International Seminar on Decolonization, whose participants will gather at The John W. Kluge Center at the …
Posted in: History