EU Month of Culture Spotlight: The Netherlands & Belgium

The following post, which originally appeared on the Insights: Scholarly Work at the John W. Kluge Center blog, was written by Program Specialist Jason Steinhauer. As part of the European Month of Culture in May 2016, we focus on scholars from European Union member...

Finding Shakespeare at the Library of Congress

The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. This is the second in a small series of blog posts on Shakespeare at...

Exploring Juan Felipe Herrera’s La Casa De Colores Project

The following post, which originally appeared on the Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog, was written by Educational Resource Specialist Danna Bell. We were thrilled to hear that Juan Felipe Herrera has accepted a second term as Poet Laureate of the United...

The “Historical” Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress. Henry W. Longfellow, head and shoulders portrait [between...