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| The Quest for Arch Oboler
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| Poetry 180: Poem 160 - "Something"
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A poem by James Valvis from the Library's Poetry 180 Project.
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| Today in History - May 7
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| 05/07/2025
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Archibald MacLeish, poet, dramatist, and ninth Librarian of Congress was born on May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois. Continue reading.
On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 sank the British ocean liner, Lusitania. Continue reading.
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| England and Wales: New Criminal Offenses Proposed for ‵Cuckooing′ and Child Exploitation
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| President James Monroe: Political Historian
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| England and Wales: New Criminal Offenses Proposed to Protect Vulnerable People and Children
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| Jade Snow Wong’s Childhood in San Francisco’s Chinatown
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| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: What's New?
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| 05/07/2025
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Chronicling America is regularly updated with newly-digitized newspapers from contributors to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspapers are delivered in the form of batches, where each batch can contain one to many issues, from one or more newspaper titles. Recently loaded batches can be discovered on the Chronicling America Research Guide. More details about the batch can be discovered by clicking on the batch name link.
An exciting addition from the Library's collections is a set of titles from New York: Daily Advertiser; Political, Historical, and Commercial (1787), Daily Advertiser (1787), Independent Journal, or the General Advertiser (1787-1788), New-York Journal, and Weekly Register (1787), New-York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register (1787-1788), New-York Journal, and Weekly Register (1788), and New-York Packet (1787-1788). These newspapers printed the Federalist Papers, a collection of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, under the pseudonym "Publius," lobbying for the adoption of the Constitution over the Articles of the Confederation.
We have linked Federalist Essays 1-51, 54, and 55, in the Federalist Essays in Historic Newspapers research guide. In the issues surrounding the essays, you can find anti-federalist essays published under pseudonyms like “Brutus” and “Centinel” as well as commentary about both sets of essays.
More information about the Federalist Papers can be found in another Library research guide, which has the transcribed full text of every essay: Federalist Papers: Primary Documents in American History
Other recent additions to Chronicling America include:
- Atlanta Daily World (Atlanta, GA), 1932-1963. The Daily World and its predecessor the Atlanta World (1931-1932) served the African American community of Atlanta during the early and mid-20th century.
- The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register (Cincinnati, OH), (1823-1837). This newspaper and its preceding title were established as a political newspaper in support of Andrew Jackson and slavery.
- Gadsden County Times (Quincy, FL), 1928-1960.
- The Kentucky Gazette (Lexington, KY), 1789-1803. Editor John Bradford began printing the Gazette three years before Kentucky became a state.
- The Mountain Echo (Yellville, AR), 1894-1929. This newspaper served the rural agriculture and mining community of a few hundred people in north-central Arkansas.
- Newport Navalog (Newport, RI), 1944-1963. This newspaper served the Naval community and military base beginning in World War II.
- Przewodnik Katolicki (New Britain, CT), 1908-1920. Polish Catholic immigrants near Hartford, CT published community news.
- The Telescope (Warren, RI), 1813-1817. This newspaper begins by documenting the War of 1812 between the United States and British.
- Toledo Union Journal (Toledo, OH), 1942-1963. The Journal served 26,500 Local 12 members of the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO).
- The Unconditional Union (Little Rock, AR), 1864-1866. This short-lived title covered pro-Union news during the Civil War. The first issue in Chronicling America prints the Arkansas state constitution.
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| Small Business, Big Impact: National Small Business Week
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| 05/07/2025
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| Jobs and Internship Opportunities OPEN NOW | Legal Research Fellow (Temporary Appointment – 90-Day NTE)
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| 05/07/2025
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The Law Library is offering an opportunity for one qualified individual to serve a 90-day temporary appointment as Legal Research Fellow. This position is located in the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law (FCIL I) division, Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress.
The Legal Research Fellow works as a junior researcher on foreign, comparative, and international law under the guidance of the chief of the FCIL division. The incumbent’s specialty areas are defined by Library of Congress needs in jurisdictional coverage. The Law Library is particularly interested in candidates with knowledge and experience of the laws of jurisdictions in Greece, Cyprus, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
The Legal Research Fellow will contribute to all Law Library products in the area of his/her responsibility and will assist in developing the Law Library’s online products and collections related to assigned jurisdiction(s).
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Provide research services on the laws of foreign countries.
- Author informative legal materials of moderate complexity for the Law Library’s publications.
Application Process
Interested candidates should:
- Submit a federal style resume (Please follow the link and ensure the resume includes all components of a federal style resume.)
- Submit a one-page Statement of Interest describing qualifications that include work experience, education and training related to the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below.
- Demonstrate familiarity with accepted research techniques and knowledge of domestic and international legal and legislative principles and concepts.
- Be informed of global legal issues and foreign legal resources.
- Ability to prepare informative documents using legal and research materials.
- Proficient oral and written communications skills to maintain efficient and effective collaboration with staff and Library users.
Eligibility: This opportunity is open to all.
Work Schedule: The work schedule is part-time, 20 hours per week. The incumbent may work onsite or on a hybrid schedule.
Submission: Candidates should submit the required documents stated above to lawresearch@loc.gov by 5pm on May 16, 2025.
Selection: Applicant information will be reviewed and the top qualified candidate based on the required knowledge, skills, and abilities will be selected.
Start Date: The desired start date for the Temporary Appointment is June 30, 2025.
Deadline for Application Submissions is May 16, 2025
This temporary appointment will be for a 90-day period.
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