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America Works

America Works

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.

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Folklife Today

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.

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Space on the Page

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.

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From the Catbird Seat

From the Catbird Seat: Poetry from the Library of Congress

Features archived recordings of poets reading and discussing their work at the Library of Congress, and offers behind-the-scenes interviews with special guests.

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La Biblioteca

La Biblioteca

An exploration of the Library’s collections that focus on the cultures of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Hispanic community in the US.

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Folklife Today

African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century

Explores the lives of three African Americans whose passages through the 19th-century are uniquely documented in the Library's manuscripts.

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2016 National Book Festival

2016 National Book Festival

Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors from the 2016 National Book Festival. The Library of Congresss National Book Festival will be held Saturday, September 24 at the Walter Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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Q&A with LCM: Interviews with Library of Congress Magazine

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.

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2013 National Book Festival

Celebration of Mexico

In December 2013, the Library of Congress plays host to a two-day conference of speakers, film and exhibitions celebrating the rich heritage of Mexico.

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2013 National Book Festival

Alan Lomax and the Soundscapes of the Upper Midwest

The 75th anniversary of Library folklorist Alan Lomax’s pioneering song collecting trip to the Upper Midwest in 1938.

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The Exquisite Corpse Adventure

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure

A Very Unusual and Completely Amazing Story Pieced Together Out of So Many Parts That It Is Not Possible To Describe Them All Here So Go Ahead and Just Start Listening. This serialized adventure story features contributions from Jon Scieszka, Katherine Patterson, Lemony Snicket and more.

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Featured Series: Conversations about Digital Preservation. Copyright 2008. The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.

Digital Preservation

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating.

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Slave Narratives

Slave Narratives

Oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.

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Music and the Brain

Music and the Brain

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.

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