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Chronicling America. Chronicling America is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. [1] [2] [3] It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. [4] [5] [6] The NDNP was founded in 2005. [7]
Education. Princeton University ( BA) Balliol College, Oxford ( DPhil) Signature. James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) [1] was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions.
Liljenquist collection. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. is a collection of photographs and ephemera related to the American Civil War. The bulk of the collection is ambrotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite of individual soldiers and officers from both sides of the conflict.
The National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, [4] charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents that make up the National Archives. [5]
The Library of Congress ( LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. [3] Founded in 1800, the library is the United States's oldest federal cultural institution. [4]
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is an institutional archives and library system comprising 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers. The Libraries and Archives serve Smithsonian Institution staff as well as the scholarly community and general public with information and reference support.
The Library of Congress Classification ( LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries used the Dewey Decimal ...
CS - Genealogy 23-35.....Genealogical lists, etc., covering more than one country or continent 38-39.....Family history covering more than one country 42-2209.....By region or country 2300-3090...Personal and family names CT - Biography 21-22.....Biography as an art or literary form