The Library of Congress Magazine features interviews with newsmakers, opinion leaders, expert curators, subject matter experts and members of our hardworking staff. We’ll share extensive audio versions of these interviews in this podcast series.
Categories: Arts
Tags: interviews, library of congress, Library of Congress Magazine, LOC
This is a podcast produced by the University of Central Florida Department of History. It features interviews with historians about their research and history in the news.
Categories: Society & Culture
Tags: archive, central Florida, Culture, Fl, History, library of congress, museum, Orlando, recording, travel, ucf, war
Space on the Page explores the universe, not via rocket but through ideas. Our guests are authors and scientists: people who think and write about space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth. Our hosts, David Baron and Lucas Mix, are recent holders of the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. In the first three episodes, Baron speaks with authors of books about Mars. They discuss our society’s fascination with the red planet—past, present, and future. In the next three episodes, Mix brings science fiction writers into conversation with scientists. Together, they examine how the human imagination depicts everything that we anticipate, hope, and fear about what is currently unknown.
Categories: Arts
Tags: Authors, exploration, library of congress, Literature, LOC, mars, NASA, outer space, science, science-fiction
Since 1989, the National Film Registry has selected 25 films each year that are deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”. In each episode, Mike Natale (Yahoo!) and Tom Lorenzo (Men’s Journal) bring on a special guest to take a look at one of the films from the registry, to get to the heart of why these films matter.
Categories: TV & Film
Tags: America, american, cinema, classics, congress, film, film history, film preservation, kyle lampar, library of congress, mens journal, mike natale, Movies, national film registry, nfr, nfr podcast, tom lorenzo, yahoo!, ymo podcast, ymopodcast, youre missing out
This podcast, hosted by Kluge Center Distinguished Visiting Scholar Adam Rothman, explores the lives of three African Americans whose passages through the 19th-century are uniquely documented in the Library’s manuscripts.
Categories: Arts
Tags: American Folklife Center, cultural traditions, folklife, interviews, library of congress, LOC, music, oral history, songs, storytelling
Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors participating in the 2009 National Book Festival, including George Pelecanos, James Patterson, Rickey Minor, Nicholas Sparks, and more. The 2009 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Categories: Arts
The 2007 National Book Festival podcast covering author interviews and highlights.
Categories: Arts
More than 25 years ago, retired music executive Joe Smith accomplished a Herculean feat — he got more than 200 celebrated singers, musicians and industry icons to talk about their lives, music, experiences and contemporaries. In 2012 Smith donated this treasure trove of unedited sound recordings to the nation’s library.
Categories: Uncategorised
Tags: Joe Smith, library of congress, music
Folklife Today tells stories about the cultural traditions and folklore of diverse communities, combining brand-new interviews and narration with songs, stories, music, and oral history from the collections of the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center.
Categories: Arts
Tags: American Folklife Center, cultural traditions, folklife, Folklife Today, interviews, library of congress, LOC, music, oral history, songs, storytelling
Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors who participated in the 2010 National Book Festival. The 2010 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, September 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Categories: Arts
Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors from the 2016 National Book Festival. The Library of Congresss National Book Festival was held Saturday, September 24, 2016, at the Walter Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Categories: Arts
The Library’s Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.
Tags: Arts, concerts, Lecture, library of congress, music, Music and the Brain, performing
America Works, an ongoing podcast series from the Library of Congress, features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today’s working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center’s archive, are enriching and expanding America’s historical record. Interview with cement plant worker Jude Bejarano, who was interviewed by historian Vyta Pivo as part of a project documenting the occupational culture of Cement Workers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. The Lehigh Valley is considered “the birthplace of the American cement industry.”
Categories: Arts
Tags: America Works American Folklife Center, folklife, interviews, library of congress, LOC, occupational folklife, oral history, storytelling