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A midcentury hardcover cookbook, showing caricatures of a dancing man and woman in colorful holiday attire

Historical Holiday Cookbooks … Did We Really Eat This Stuff? (Yes)

A sepia-toned photograph from around 1900 of a black man wearing a three piece suit with a tie and a starched white collar.

Scott Joplin & the Magical “Maple Leaf Rag”

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Publishing at the Library, with Aimee Hess

Black and white phot of a smiling Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach danding in a recording studio in the 1960s.

Burt Bacharach: This Guy’s in the Library of Congress

A medium close up photo of several lines of poetry set onto a chest-high wall.

Veterans Day: Remembering World War I

Two women and one man sit on a stage in front of a National Book Festival backdrop.

Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovering of America”

The Multinational Traditions of Halloween and Día de los Muertos

A smiling young woman poses in front of heavy equipment. Her hair is in a ponytail and she is wearing a tee shirt and glasses.

Vivian Li, the Library’s New Innovator in Residence

Wide shot of a rocket lifting off, with clouds of smoke and fire at its base, headed into a crystal blue sky.

NASA and the Library Send Poetry into Space