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Archive: December 2016 (2 Posts)

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Africa, Past and Future: A Conversation with Toyin Falola

Posted by: Dan Turello

Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers. …

Posted in: Africa, Culture & Society, Government, History, Politics, Sociology, Uncategorized

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Discovering Walt Whitman at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Walt Whitman has been the subject of rigorous study for more than 100 years. Is there anything left to discover? Three former Kluge fellows and scholars of Whitman help to answer the enduring appeal of “America’s poet” and discuss their research at the Library’s Kluge Center. No one’s work seems to get “discovered” as much …

Posted in: Literature