Contributor:
Hernandez, Nicki - Mondello, Bob - Newlen, Robert Randolph - Horowitz, Mark
Date:2025-09-30
Film, Video
“The Sound of Music” Tour Company 2025 Visits the Library of Congress
The National Tour of “The Sound of Music” joined the Library of Congress for a look at historic and rare items in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collections and more. Music specialist Caitlin Miller and colleagues provided a unique opportunity for the company members to view and hear stories behind the curated selection of music and lyric sketches, personal correspondence, photographs and…
Contributor:
Miller, Caitlin
Date:2025-09-29
Film, Video
A Closer Look at the Letters that Inspired Lyrics in “The Sound of Music”
Music Specialist Caitlin Miller and cast members from “The Sound of Music” National Tour 2025 discuss how inspiration for lyrics can come from the unlikeliest of places: correspondence from theater professor Sister Gregory Duffy to the musical’s creative team. Learn how Sr. Gregory’s perspective clearly inspired Oscar Hammerstein II as he crafted what would become the iconic anthem “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.”To view the letter…
Katherine Rundell Presents The Impossible Creatures Series
Do you love a thrilling adventure, feisty characters, and a world full of remarkable creatures? Join Katherine Rundell, author of the bestselling children’s fantasy novel “Impossible Creatures,” as she shares the next book in the series, “The Poisoned King,” with fans of all things magical. Katherine Rundell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “Impossible Creatures” and “The Poisoned King.” Her other…
Contributor:
Rundell, Katherine - Dowdy, Sasha
Date:2025-09-27
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 6
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session six (of six), Scott Tilton and Rudy Bazenet, of the Nous Foundation, speak about their CCG project titled, “La Musique Nous Réunit: Documenting Louisiana French Music.” Chancee Martorell and Panida Rzonca, of the Thai Community Development…
American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants: Presentation by AFC Staff
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate the recipients of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In this session, four staff members from the American Folklife Center – Andrea Decker, PhD, Allina Migoni, Rebecca McGivney and Shelly Justement – present about their work to process collections received through the Community Collections Grant program.
Contributor:
Decker, Andrea - Migoni, Allina - Justement, Shelly - McGivney, Rebecca - Fenn, John
Date:2025-09-25
Film, Video
Live! At The Library: An Evening with Mary Roach
We live in a technologically advanced era, but is it so advanced that replacement body parts are common, even grown from 3D printers? What does it mean to be human when body parts may come from printers or animals? With her infectious curiosity, bestselling author Mary Roach, talked about her new book “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” at this event. Mary Roach is…
Contributor:
Harbster, Jennifer - Roach, Mary - Larson, Christina
Date:2025-09-25
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 4
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session four (of six), Alex Lumelsky speaks about his work to preserve stories of the Chaldean community in the United States, a minority ethnic group from northern Iraq residing primarily in southeast Michigan. Laura Grant and Merlene…
Contributor:
Lumelsky, Alex - Grant, Laura - Skillman, Amy - Everson, Merlene
Date:2025-09-25
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 3
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session three (of six), Russell Oliver presents about his CCG project, “Documenting the Stories, Agricultural Traditions, and Culture of Specialty Coffee Farmers in Puerto Rico.” Yvette Cohn Storr describes her work documenting dance traditions of Hispanic communities…
Contributor:
Storr, Yvette Cohn - Rice, John - Oliver, Russell
Date:2025-09-25
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 5
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session five (of six), Kimberly Wieser presents about her CCG project, “Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story.” Rocío Del Águila presents about her work to document the Hispanic cultural heritages of Latino communities…
Contributor:
Underwood, Robert - Wieser, Kimberly - Águila, Rocío Del - Abdul-Malik, Karen
Date:2025-09-25
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 2
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session two (of six), Isaac Rodriguez presents about his work to document the contemporary music scene in Houston, Texas. Steve Rowland and Shamah ShaRize speak about their project titled, “Time Out of Joint – Prisoners and Former…
Contributor:
Punzalan, Ricky - Lafontant, Anthony - Sharize, Shamah - Rowland, Steve - Rodriguez, Isaac
Date:2025-09-24
Film, Video
Homegrown Concert of Tejas Roots Music with Nick Gaitan
The Nick Gaitan Band, based in Houston, Texas, celebrates the vibrant musical cultures of Tejano and Chicano communities on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The group blends the genres of conjunto, cumbia, Louisiana swamp pop, country, and rhythm and blues, creating a sound they call “Tejas Roots Music.” This concert took place as part of a symposium honoring recipients of the Community…
Contributor:
Valdez, Nicolas - Gaitan, Nick
Date:2025-09-24
Film, Video
Conversation with Nick Gaitan
Houston’s native son, Nick Gaitan, is a singer-songwriter, bandleader, and music historian, with deep roots in the wide-ranging musical culture of Houston’s East End and the broader Gulf Coast. Gaitan is proficient in the many genres of music that co-exist in the region ranging from Tejano and conjunto to honky-tonk, blues, rockabilly and soul and ska. The occasion for this interview was a concert…
Contributor:
Shankar, Guha - Gaitan, Nick
Date:2025-09-24
Film, Video
September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 1
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session one (of six), Nicki Saylor (Director, American Folklife Center) gives introductory comments about the symposium. Folklorist Ashley Minner Jones presents about her research among elders of the Lumbee community in East Baltimore, Maryland. Aarti Mehta-Kroll and…
2025 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony
Join us as we honor the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows in a live ceremony in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, September 17, 2025, 5:30pm-6:45pm. The NEA National Heritage Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients’ artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation’s traditional…
Contributor:
Deychakiwsky, Nick - Saylor, Nicole - Hladyshevsky, Andrew - Marsh, Ernie - Baron, Carmen - Chauveaux, Tony - Mahlay, Oleh - Guerrier, Peniel - Reiko, Adrienne - Tamayo, Steven - Thibeaux, Kristen
Date:2025-09-17
Film, Video
11th Annual SPX Program – Paul Karasik
11th Annual Small Press Expo Program: An Afternoon with two-time Eisner Award winning cartoonist and international comics instructor, Paul Karasik, who has taught the craft of making comics for decades and will share his unique methods for teaching comics that can be applied in any classroom to any discipline. Teachers, students, cartoonists, and comics fans: come prepared to participate in learning more about how…
Contributor:
Halsband, Megan - Karasik, Paul - Bernard, Warren
Date:2025-09-12
Film, Video
From Scroll to Screen: Celebrating the Digitization of Hebrew Manuscripts
Celebrate the successful conclusion of the Hebrew Manuscript Digitization Project, made possible through a generous grant from the Berg Foundation. The Library recently digitized 270 Hebrew manuscripts, highlighting their historical significance and ensuring their preservation for future generations. This milestone marks a key achievement in making these invaluable cultural treasures more accessible to researchers and the public.The event features a presentation by Sharon Mintz,…
Contributor:
Bitton, Yoram - Mintz, Sharon
Date:2025-09-11
Film, Video
Something’s a Little Funny Here: Contemporary Fiction with Kashana Cauley and Maggie Su
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…sentient blob? Kashana Cauley and Maggie Su grapple with the absurdity of contemporary life in their humorous new novels, in which their main characters stage a heist in order to escape the Debt Police, Cauley, “The Payback” and mold the perfect boyfriend from an amorphous blob Su, “Blob: A Love Story.”
Contributor:
Marloff, Sarah - Su, Maggie - Cauley, Kashana
Date:2025-09-06
Film, Video
Horror in Hostile Worlds: Agustina Bazterrica and Stephen Graham Jones
The past is full of horrors. Too bad the present isn’t better. The narrators in Agustina Bazterrica’s “The Unworthy” and Stephen Graham Jones’ “Buffalo Hunter Hunter” — a member of a mysterious convent and vampire who haunts the Blackfeet Nation, respectively — face-off with the buried past and the tidal pull of violence in the present. Andrew Limbong moderates this historical horror panel.
Contributor:
Limbong, Andrew - Jones, Stephen Graham - Bazterrica, Agustina
Date:2025-09-06
Film, Video
Pirates, Demons and Other Good Guys: Joe Abercrombie and Shannon Chakraborty’s New Epics
Perilous adventures through dystopias and distant lands can be connected through, if nothing else, their bloodiness, boisterousness and…comedy? Amina al-Sirafi and Brother Diaz follow their ambitions through journeys of epic proportions, encountering (and sometimes working with) the supernatural. Join Joe Abercrombie, “The Devils” and Shannon Chakraborty, “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” as they discuss their new darkly funny fantasy adventures.
Contributor:
Barber, Regina G - Abercrombie, Joe - Chakraborty, Shannon
2025 National Book Festival Interview: V.E. Schwab
Author V.E Schwab attends the 2025 National Book Festival and speaks about her writing process and challenges faced in writing the book “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.”
Transcribe History: Become a Virtual Volunteer
Since 2018, volunteers with the Library of Congress’ By the People program have transcribed more than 950,000 historical documents ??? from the papers of Theodore Roosevelt and Rosa Parks to Walt Whitman and more. Learn how these efforts improve access and discovery, and find out how you can join this virtual volunteer community at crowd.loc.gov.
Film, VideoEverything’s Coming Up Sondheim: A Journey Through the Library’s Theatre Collections This event celebrated the Library’s acquisition of the Stephen Sondheim Collection with a conversation between Mark Horowitz from the Library and Bob Mondello of NPR.
Film, Video“The Sound of Music” Tour Company 2025 Visits the Library of Congress The National Tour of “The Sound of Music” joined the Library of Congress for a look at historic and rare items in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collections and more. Music specialist Caitlin Miller and colleagues provided a unique opportunity for the company members to view and hear stories behind the curated selection of music and lyric sketches, personal correspondence, photographs and…
Film, VideoA Closer Look at the Letters that Inspired Lyrics in “The Sound of Music” Music Specialist Caitlin Miller and cast members from “The Sound of Music” National Tour 2025 discuss how inspiration for lyrics can come from the unlikeliest of places: correspondence from theater professor Sister Gregory Duffy to the musical’s creative team. Learn how Sr. Gregory’s perspective clearly inspired Oscar Hammerstein II as he crafted what would become the iconic anthem “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.”To view the letter…
Film, VideoKatherine Rundell Presents The Impossible Creatures Series Do you love a thrilling adventure, feisty characters, and a world full of remarkable creatures? Join Katherine Rundell, author of the bestselling children’s fantasy novel “Impossible Creatures,” as she shares the next book in the series, “The Poisoned King,” with fans of all things magical. Katherine Rundell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “Impossible Creatures” and “The Poisoned King.” Her other…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 6 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session six (of six), Scott Tilton and Rudy Bazenet, of the Nous Foundation, speak about their CCG project titled, “La Musique Nous Réunit: Documenting Louisiana French Music.” Chancee Martorell and Panida Rzonca, of the Thai Community Development…
Film, VideoAmerican Folklife Center Community Collections Grants: Presentation by AFC Staff In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate the recipients of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In this session, four staff members from the American Folklife Center – Andrea Decker, PhD, Allina Migoni, Rebecca McGivney and Shelly Justement – present about their work to process collections received through the Community Collections Grant program.
Film, VideoLive! At The Library: An Evening with Mary Roach We live in a technologically advanced era, but is it so advanced that replacement body parts are common, even grown from 3D printers? What does it mean to be human when body parts may come from printers or animals? With her infectious curiosity, bestselling author Mary Roach, talked about her new book “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” at this event. Mary Roach is…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 4 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session four (of six), Alex Lumelsky speaks about his work to preserve stories of the Chaldean community in the United States, a minority ethnic group from northern Iraq residing primarily in southeast Michigan. Laura Grant and Merlene…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 3 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session three (of six), Russell Oliver presents about his CCG project, “Documenting the Stories, Agricultural Traditions, and Culture of Specialty Coffee Farmers in Puerto Rico.” Yvette Cohn Storr describes her work documenting dance traditions of Hispanic communities…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 5 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session five (of six), Kimberly Wieser presents about her CCG project, “Continuing Comanche Culture: Culture as Making, Craft as Shared Story.” Rocío Del Águila presents about her work to document the Hispanic cultural heritages of Latino communities…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 2 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session two (of six), Isaac Rodriguez presents about his work to document the contemporary music scene in Houston, Texas. Steve Rowland and Shamah ShaRize speak about their project titled, “Time Out of Joint – Prisoners and Former…
Film, VideoHomegrown Concert of Tejas Roots Music with Nick Gaitan The Nick Gaitan Band, based in Houston, Texas, celebrates the vibrant musical cultures of Tejano and Chicano communities on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The group blends the genres of conjunto, cumbia, Louisiana swamp pop, country, and rhythm and blues, creating a sound they call “Tejas Roots Music.” This concert took place as part of a symposium honoring recipients of the Community…
Film, VideoConversation with Nick Gaitan Houston’s native son, Nick Gaitan, is a singer-songwriter, bandleader, and music historian, with deep roots in the wide-ranging musical culture of Houston’s East End and the broader Gulf Coast. Gaitan is proficient in the many genres of music that co-exist in the region ranging from Tejano and conjunto to honky-tonk, blues, rockabilly and soul and ska. The occasion for this interview was a concert…
Film, VideoSeptember 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 1 In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and their documentation projects. In session one (of six), Nicki Saylor (Director, American Folklife Center) gives introductory comments about the symposium. Folklorist Ashley Minner Jones presents about her research among elders of the Lumbee community in East Baltimore, Maryland. Aarti Mehta-Kroll and…
Film, Video2025 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony Join us as we honor the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows in a live ceremony in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, September 17, 2025, 5:30pm-6:45pm. The NEA National Heritage Fellowship is the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients’ artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation’s traditional…
Film, Video11th Annual SPX Program – Paul Karasik 11th Annual Small Press Expo Program: An Afternoon with two-time Eisner Award winning cartoonist and international comics instructor, Paul Karasik, who has taught the craft of making comics for decades and will share his unique methods for teaching comics that can be applied in any classroom to any discipline. Teachers, students, cartoonists, and comics fans: come prepared to participate in learning more about how…
Film, VideoFrom Scroll to Screen: Celebrating the Digitization of Hebrew Manuscripts Celebrate the successful conclusion of the Hebrew Manuscript Digitization Project, made possible through a generous grant from the Berg Foundation. The Library recently digitized 270 Hebrew manuscripts, highlighting their historical significance and ensuring their preservation for future generations. This milestone marks a key achievement in making these invaluable cultural treasures more accessible to researchers and the public.The event features a presentation by Sharon Mintz,…
Film, VideoSomething’s a Little Funny Here: Contemporary Fiction with Kashana Cauley and Maggie Su It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…sentient blob? Kashana Cauley and Maggie Su grapple with the absurdity of contemporary life in their humorous new novels, in which their main characters stage a heist in order to escape the Debt Police, Cauley, “The Payback” and mold the perfect boyfriend from an amorphous blob Su, “Blob: A Love Story.”
Film, VideoHorror in Hostile Worlds: Agustina Bazterrica and Stephen Graham Jones The past is full of horrors. Too bad the present isn’t better. The narrators in Agustina Bazterrica’s “The Unworthy” and Stephen Graham Jones’ “Buffalo Hunter Hunter” — a member of a mysterious convent and vampire who haunts the Blackfeet Nation, respectively — face-off with the buried past and the tidal pull of violence in the present. Andrew Limbong moderates this historical horror panel.
Film, VideoPirates, Demons and Other Good Guys: Joe Abercrombie and Shannon Chakraborty’s New Epics Perilous adventures through dystopias and distant lands can be connected through, if nothing else, their bloodiness, boisterousness and…comedy? Amina al-Sirafi and Brother Diaz follow their ambitions through journeys of epic proportions, encountering (and sometimes working with) the supernatural. Join Joe Abercrombie, “The Devils” and Shannon Chakraborty, “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” as they discuss their new darkly funny fantasy adventures.
Film, Video2025 National Book Festival Interview: Andrea Beatriz Arango Author Andrea Beatriz Arango attends the 2025 National Book Festival and speaks about her writing process and challenges faced in writing the book “It’s All or Nothing, Vale.”
Film, Video2025 National Book Festival Interview: Tiffany D. Jackson Author Tiffany D. Jackson attends the 2025 National Book Festival and speaks about her writing process and challenges faced in writing the book “Blood in the Water.”
Film, Video2025 National Book Festival Interview: V.E. Schwab Author V.E Schwab attends the 2025 National Book Festival and speaks about her writing process and challenges faced in writing the book “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.”
Film, Video2025 National Book Festival Interview: Fiona Davis Author Fiona Davis attends the 2025 National Book Festival and speaks about her writing process and challenges faced in writing the book “The Stolen Queen.”
Film, VideoTranscribe History: Become a Virtual Volunteer Since 2018, volunteers with the Library of Congress’ By the People program have transcribed more than 950,000 historical documents ??? from the papers of Theodore Roosevelt and Rosa Parks to Walt Whitman and more. Learn how these efforts improve access and discovery, and find out how you can join this virtual volunteer community at crowd.loc.gov.