Tag: Library of Congress

Library of Congress Acquires the Vast Archive of The History Makers

The archive includes more than 9,000 hours of video interviews of 2,500 Black Americans. The collection includes 14,000 analog tapes, 3,000 DVDs, 70,000 paper documents, and 30,000 digital images.

Natasha Trethewey Appointed to a Second Term as Poet Laureate of the United States

She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta. In addition to a second one-year term as Poet Laureate of the United States, she is also serving a four-year term as the poet laureate of the state of Mississippi.

Ralph Eubanks Named Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review

Since 1995. Eubanks has worked for the Library of Congress, most recently as director of publishing. There he has supervised the publication of more than 80 works of nonfiction.

Bucknell University’s Shara McCallum Named a Witter Bynner Fellow

Professor McCallum will receive a $10,000 prize and had the opportunity to read her poetry at the Library of Congress this week to open National Poetry Month.

African American Professor Named Poet Laureate of the United States

Natasha Trethewey is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta.

A New Database on Oral History Collections of the Civil Rights Movement

A new online database with information on 1,000 oral history collections in libraries, museums, and university archives across the nation.

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