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    Sondheim on Music In this collection of interviews with Mark Eden Horowitz, Stephen Sondheim expounds in great depth and detail on his craft. This edition features a revised introduction and postlude with an additional conversation. This paperback “less-is-more” edition is a must-have for fans of this creative genius.
    • Contributor: Mark Eden Horowitz (editor)
    • Publication Date: March 13, 2019
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    American Journal Selected by former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize–winner Tracy K. Smith, the fifty poems in this small volume explore and expound the diversity and character of America and her people.
    • Contributor: Tracy K. Smith (editor)
    • Publication Date: September 4, 2018
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    Baseball Americana This illustrated book examines baseball’s hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character through the wide-ranging and deep collections of the Library of Congress. The more than 350 illustrations—many never published before—include vintage baseball cards; the earliest known printed image of baseball in America; and items from advertising, film, and music.
    • Contributor: Harry Katz, Frank Ceresi, Phil Michel, Wilson McBee, and Susan Reyburn (authors), George F. Will (foreword), Carla D. Hayden (contributor)
    • Publication Date: May 1, 2018
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    American Libraries 1730–1950 Through 500 photographs and plans selected from the encyclopedic collections of the Library of Congress, this volume traces the development of libraries in the United States, providing a history and panorama of these much-loved structures, encompassing the small personal collection, the vast university library, and everything in between.
    • Contributor: Kenneth Breisch (author), Carla Hayden (foreword)
    • Publication Date: September 5, 2017
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    Journeys Here are more than fifty powerful letters from young readers to authors revealing some of the ways that books can change lives.
    • Contributor: Catherine Gourley (editor)
    • Publication Date: August 1, 2017
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    America and the Great War This comprehensive chronicle presents events and arguments, political and military battles, bitter tragedies and epic achievements that marked U.S. involvement in the first modern war.
    • Contributor: Margaret E. Wagner (author), David M. Kennedy (introduction)
    • Publication Date: May 30, 2017
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    The Card Catalog Featuring more than 200 images of original catalog cards and rare edition book covers, while also charting the history of the catalog—from its origins 5,000 years ago to the present—this visual tour of rarely seen gems highlights the brilliant catalog system that has kept the world’s largest library organized for hundreds of years.
    • Contributor: Carla Hayden (foreword)
    • Publication Date: April 4, 2017
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    Picturing America This beautiful work is the first of its kind to examine the bold art form of pictorial maps.
    • Contributor: Stephen J. Hornsby
    • Publication Date: March 23, 2017
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    Fabriano This beautiful book explores how the Arab art of papermaking by hand came to the Italian peninsula in the thirteenth century and why the city of Fabriano was well-positioned to develop as the heart of this artisan craft.
    • Contributor: Sylvia Rodgers Albro
    • Publication Date: October 16, 2016
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    Jacob A. Riis This illustrated book is the first comprehensive study and complete catalogue of Jacob A. Riis’s world-famous images of American urban poverty.
    • Contributor: Bonnie Yochelson
    • Publication Date: October 27, 2015
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    Michigan I-O This multimedia e-book celebrates Alan Lomax’s 1938 folklife survey of the Great Lakes region.
    • Contributor: Todd Harvey
    • Publication Date: November 1, 2013
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    Great Photographs from the Library of Congress This interactive e-book features more than 700 extraordinary photographs from the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Helena Zinkham (author), Aimee Hess (editor)
    • Publication Date: September 30, 2013
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    A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox This book gives context to the life and work of mathematician and scientist Johannes Schöner, whose collection of maps and notes contains the original world maps made by Martin Waldseemüller, a star chart by Albrecht Dürer, and a set of celestial globe gores of Schöner’s design.
    • Contributor: John W. Hessler
    • Publication Date: April 16, 2013
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    The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax Features Alan Lomax’s photographs of folk musicians in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
    • Contributor: William R. Ferris (introduction), Tom Piazza (contributor)
    • Publication Date: December 10, 2012
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    Mary Pickford Featuring magnificent images and revealing essays, this beautifully designed volume offers a fascinating portrait of a brilliant woman whose influence on the film industry remains unmatched.
    • Contributor: Christel Schmidt (editor)
    • Publication Date: November 12, 2012
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    Perspectives on the Hebraic Book This volume comprises the texts of the Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lectures on the Hebraic Book, which were delivered annually from 2000 to 2009 at the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Peggy K. Pearlstein (editor)
    • Publication Date: June 1, 2012
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    Presidential Campaign Posters from the Library of Congress An oversized collection of the most striking and historically intriguing presidential campaign posters from throughout American history.
    • Contributor: Brooke Gladstone (contributor)
    • Publication Date: May 15, 2012
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    To Know Wisdom and Instruction This volume honors the Armenian literary tradition with items from the Armenian collections of the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Levon Avdoyan
    • Publication Date: April 1, 2012
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    Miles To Go for Freedom Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an important addition to Black history books for young readers. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country from the 1890s to 1954.
    • Contributor: Linda Barrett Osborne
    • Publication Date: January 1, 2012
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    The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War An authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history, this detailed chronological timeline of the Civil War captures the harrowing intensity of 19th-century warfare in firsthand accounts from soldiers, nurses, and front-line journalists.
    • Contributor: Margaret E. Wagner (author), Gary W. Gallegher (introduction)
    • Publication Date: October 24, 2011
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    Photographic Memory Traces the rise of the photographic album from the turn of last century to the present day.
    • Contributor: Verna Posever Curtis
    • Publication Date: May 31, 2011
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    The Washington Haggadah A stunning facsimile edition of the fifteenth-century manuscript known as “The Washington Haggadah,” meticulously reproduced in full color.
    • Contributor: Joel ben Simeon (author), David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel (introductions)
    • Publication Date: March 14, 2011
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    Cemeteries A bountifully illustrated exploration of the cemetery in American landscape and narrative.
    • Contributor: Keith Eggener
    • Publication Date: December 13, 2010
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    Illinois This selection in the Mapping the States through History series features Illinois.
    • Contributor: Scotti McAuliff Cohn and Vincent Virga
    • Publication Date: November 23, 2010
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    The Poets Laureate Anthology An anthology of poems by forty-three Poets Laureate of the United States.
    • Contributor: Elizabeth Hun Schmidt (editor), Billy Collins (foreword)
    • Publication Date: October 4, 2010