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2008
An
Evening with Chinua Achebe
November 3, 2008
Jon Scieszka Receives National Ambassador's Medal
September 28, 2008
Library
of Congress Honors Herman Wouk
September 10, 2008
Mark
Stein discusses his new book, How the States Got Their Shapes
July 15, 2008
Adam
Clymer discusses his new book, Drawing the Line at the Big
Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
May 22, 2008
Robert
Hass Moderates River of Words Ceremony
May 12, 2008
To
Read or Not to Read
May 8, 2008
Memo to the President-Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation
and Leadership
(Madeline Albright)
May 5, 2008
Bill
McKibben discusses "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since
Thoreau"
April 15, 2008
Lt.
Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr. discusses his new autobiography
April 15, 2008
Stephen
King, his wife and son discuss their writing styles and read
to students from four Washington, DC classrooms
April 4, 2008
Jennifer
8. Lee discusses her new book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles:
Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
March 17, 2008
Michael
Dirda discusses his new book, Classics for Pleasure
March 6, 2008
Michael
B. Oren discusses America in the Middle East
February 27, 2008
The
New Deal Campaign of 1932
February 14, 2008
2007
An
African Republic
December 10, 2007 Richard
Kurin discusses his book, The History and Curse of the Hope
Diamond
November 16, 2007
Raymond
J. Batvinis discusses his new book, The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence
November 8, 2007
ALA
President Loriene Roy speaks in honor of Native American Heritage
Month
November 2, 2007
The new Center for the Book publication, Agent of Change:
Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, is
featured at Book History Symposium
November 2, 2007 - Presentation
of Papers and Panel
Discussion
Senior
music specialist Robin Rausch discusses the book, A Place
for the Arts: The MacDowell Colomy, 1907-2007
October 30, 2007
Novelist
David Robbins discusses "The Nuts & Bolts of Historical Fiction"
October 24, 2007
Vincent
Virga and Ron Grim discuss their new book, Cartographia:
Mapping Civilizations, that highlights the Library's map
treasures
October 23, 2007
Center
for the Book hosts program on Library Accessibility
October 17, 2007
Martin
Meredith discusses his new book, Diamonds, Gold, and War:
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
October 11, 2007
2006
Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature - Presentation
October 6, 2007
Albert
N. Greco and Robert M. Wharton discuss "The State of the Book
Industry in 2007"
June 28, 2007
Michael
Blake discusses his new book, Indian Yell: The Heart of an
American Insurgency
June 25, 2007
Elizabeth
Brown Pryor discusses her new biography of Robert E. Lee
June 12, 2007
Poet
Robert Hass Hosts River of Words Awards Ceremony
May 15, 2007
Arnold
Rampersad discusses his new biography of Ralph Ellison
May 3, 2007
Stephen
H. Grant discusses his new book, Peter Strickland: New London
Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal
March 22, 2007
Rovert
R. Davila, president of Gallaudet University, is one of several
speakers in a program marking a new partnership between the Center
for the Book and the National Literary Society of the Deaf
March 13, 2007
Mary
E. Neighbour discusses her new novel about Dred Scott, Speak
Right On
March 6, 2007
Sara
Paretsky discusses her latest mystery thriller, Fire Sale
February 27, 2007
Historian
Douglas L. Wilson discusses his new book, Lincoln's Sword:
The Presidency and the Power of Words
February 21, 2007
2006
Seven
authors discuss their books in the "Women Who Dare®" series
published by the Library of Congress in association with Pomegranate. See
also news
release for more information.
November 11, 2006.
Godfrey
Hodgson discusses his new biography of Col. Edward House, Woodrow
Wilson's Right Hand
October 31, 2006
David
Baldacci discusses his new novel, The Collectors
October 17, 2006
W.
Joseph Campbell discusses The Year That Defined American
Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms
October 4, 2006
2005
Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature - Presentation
September 16, 2006
Steven
Sage discusses Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, the Plagiarist
and the Plot for the Third Reich
July 19, 2006
Theodore
R. Malloch and Scott T. Massey discuss Renewing American
Culture: The Pursuit of Happiness
May 25, 2006
Poets
and Young Readers take part in National Poetry Month
April 27, 2006
Tom
D.Crouch discusses Rocketeers and Gentleman Engineers
April 25, 2006
Poet
Robert Hass hosts the 2006 River of Words ceremony
April 22, 2006
James
Swanson discusses his best-selling book, Manhunt: The Chase
for Lincoln's Killer
April 18, 2006
Margaret
Wagner and Gary Gallagher discuss the Library of Congress book, The
American Civil War: 365 Days
April 11, 2006
Gerard
Gawalt My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and
Their Wives
March 30, 2006
Thomas
J. Dodd discusses his book, Tiburcio Carias: Portrait of
a Honduran Political Leader
March 24, 2006
Historian
J. A., Lemay discusses Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History
March 9, 2006
Former
Ambassador to Italy Richard Gardner discusses Mission Italy:
On the Front Line of the Cold War
February 14, 2006
Robert
Wilson discusses his biography, The Explorer King: Adventure,
Science and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old
West
February 8, 2006
John
Dickerson discusses his biography, On Her Trail: My Mother:
Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star
February 6, 2006
Nicholas
Basbanes discusses Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the
Printed Word to Stir the World
January 31, 2006
Jeffrey
Matthews discusses his biography, Alanson B. Houghton and
the New Era
January 27, 2006
Dana
Stabenow discusses her new book, Blindfold Game: A Thriller
January 10, 2006
2005
Dane
Kennedy discusses his new biography, Richard Burton and the
Victorian World
November 30, 2005
Lewis
Dabney discusses his new biography of Edmund Wilson
November 2, 2005
Historian
John Hope Franklin discusses his new autobiography, Mirror
to America
November 1, 2005
Edmund
Morris discusses his new book, Beethoven: The Universal Composer
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 25, 2005
Stephen
Borelli discusses his book, How About That! The Life of Mel
Allen
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 18, 2005
2004
Americas Awards ceremony
October 1, 2005
Editor
and translator Lori Marie Carlson discusses her book, Red
Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United
States
A Hispanic Heritage Month program sponsored jointly with the Hispanic
Division, September 29, 2005.
Journalist
Jay Feldman discusses his book, When the Mississippi Ran
Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
BOOKS & BEYOND, August 4, 2005
Historian
A. Roger Ekirch discusses his book At Day's Close: Night
in Times Past
BOOKS & BEYOND, June 20, 2005
Kelly
Cresap discusses his book, Pop Trickster Fool: Warhol Performs
Naiveté
May 17, 2005
Poet
Jorie Graham reads at Library's celebration of National Poetry
Month
April 26, 2005
Ann
McClellan discusses her book on the National Cherry Blossom Festival
BOOKS & BEYOND, March 30, 2005
U. S. Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchison discusses her new book American Heroines:
The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
BOOKS & BEYOND, March 14, 2005
Journalist
Nick Kotz discusses his new book on civil rights, Judgment
Days
March 1, 2005
Historian Susan
Ware discusses her biography of Mary Margaret McBride
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 22, 2005.
Librarian
and historian John Y. Cole, director of the Center for the Book,
discusses the Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: For
Congress, the Nation, and the World, an authoritative
one-volume reference work of new essays, articles, and statistical
appendices. Edited by Cole and historian Jane Aikin, the volume
describes the development of the Library's collections, functions,
and services from its origin in 1800 to 2004.
February 18, 2005
Literary scholar
and Hammett specialist Richard Layman presents an informal talk "The
Maltese Falcon at 75" to mark the 75th anniversary of the Dashiell
Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 15, 2005
Ned Crouch discusses
his book Mexicans & Americans: Cracking the Cultural Code
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 14, 2005
Promoting Literacy
in South Africa discussed by Lorato Trok and Joseph Lekuton
February 8, 2005
Gerard
W. Gawalt and Ann G. Gawalt discuss their new book, First
Daughters: Letters Between U. S. Presidents and Their Daughters
October 27, 2004
Historian and
biographer Ernest B. Furgurson discusses his new book Freedom
Rising: Washington in the Civil War
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 26, 2004
Author Daniel Mark
Epstein discusses his book, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel
Lives in Civil War Washington
September 30, 2004
Library hosts 2003
Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
September 24, 2004
Author and journalist
Larry Tye discusses his new book Rising from the Rails
BOOKS & BEYOND, July 21, 2004
Paul Krugman discusses
recent book The Great Unraveling
BOOKS & BEYOND, July 21, 2004
John Norton Moore
discusses his recent book Solving the War Puzzle
BOOKS & BEYOND, June 30, 2004
The History and
Myths Surrounding the U.S. Flag are discussed by Karal Ann Marling
and Vincent Virga
BOOKS & BEYOND, June 14, 2004
Kenneth A Tucker
and Vandana Allman dicsuss their new book, Animals, Inc.
BOOKS & BEYOND, June 14, 2004
Mystery Writer
Carolyn Hart speaks at the Library of Congress
BOOKS & BEYOND, April 28, 2004
Daniel J. Boorstin
Memorial Service
April 27, 2004
Herman Wouk discusses
his new book (A Hole in Texas) with journalist William
Safire at the Library of Congress
BOOKS & BEYOND, April 21, 2004
Jerry Pinkney discusses "A
Sense of Place"
February 17, 2004
David
Levering Lewis and Deborah Willis discuss their essays based
on images `in the new book, A Small Nation of People: W.E.B.
Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
October 29, 2003
Henry Wiencek discusses
his new book, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves,
and the Creation of America
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 29, 2003
Michael Dirda discusses
his memoir, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 14, 2003
W. Ralph Eubanks
discusses his new memoir, Ever is a Long Time: A Journey
Into Mississippi's Dark Past
BOOKS & BEYOND, September 17, 2003
Robert Caro discusses
his new book on President Lyndon B. Johnson
BOOKS & BEYOND, May 20, 2003 Vartan Gregorian
discusses his new autobiography
BOOKS & BEYOND, May 19, 2003
"Sodom
Laurel Album" Explores North Carolina Mountain Community
April 21, 2003
Linda Monk discusses
her new book, The Words We Live By; Your Annotated Guide
to the Constitution
BOOKS & BEYOND, April 14, 2003
Amy Shapiro Discusses Millicent
Fenwick: Her Way
BOOKS & BEYOND, April 1, 2003
Women's Activism
and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger and Jane
Addams
BOOKS & BEYOND, March 24, 2003 Native American
women writers discuss new book, Sister Nations.
BOOKS & BEYOND, March 4, 2003
Kenneth Janken discusses
his new book, White: The Biography of Walter White
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 25, 2003
Peter Bridges discusses
his new book Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel
BOOKS & BEYOND, November 18, 2002
A symposium
marking the publication of Perspectives on American Book
History: Artifacts and Commentary
Event date: October 21, 2002
Lawrence W. Levine
and Cornelia R. Levine present a talk about their book, The
People and the President: America's Conservations with FDR
BOOKS & BEYOND, October 15, 2002
Robert Pinsky: Poetry
in the Public Sphere
May 13, 2002
A program featuring
readings from Andrew Carroll's War Letters: Extraordinary
Correspondence from American Wars
BOOKS & BEYOND, May 1, 2002
River of Words Awards
Ceremony
April 27, 2002
David C. Major
and John S. Major discuss their book One-Night Reads: A Book
Lover's Guide
BOOKS & BEYOND, April 17, 2002
Celtic
Roots: Stories, Songs, and Traditions Across the Sea
March 13, 2002
William B. Jones,
Jr. discusses his book Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History,
with Illustrations
BOOKS & BEYOND, March 5, 2002
Photographer
Carl Fleischhauer and folklorist Neil V. Rosenberg discuss their
book Bluegrass Odyssey
BOOKS & BEYOND,February 27, 2002
Jill Lepore discusses
her book A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in
the Newly United States
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 26, 2002
Kathleen Thompson
and Hilary MacAustin present an illustrated talk about their
new book Children of the Depression
BOOKS & BEYOND, February 12, 2002
Joanne
B. Freeman discusses her books Affairs of Honor:National Politics
in the New Republic and Alexander Hamilton: Writings
BOOKS & BEYOND, December 12, 2001
Allen
Kurzweil discusses his book The Grand Complication: A Novel
BOOKS & BEYOND, November 28, 2001
Nicholas
Basbanes discusses his book: Patience and Fortitude
BOOKS & BEYOND, November 8, 2001
Sharon Robinson
discusses her book Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values
To Live By
BOOKS & BEYOND, November 6, 2001
Warren Coville
describes his experience collecting works by photographers associated
with the Clarence H. White School of Photography
October 11, 2001
Louis
Menand discusses his book The Metaphysical Club: A Story of
Ideas in America
BOOKS & BEYOND, May 30, 2001
Discovering
Hidden Washington: A Journey Through the Alley Communities of
the Nation's Capital.
Program, May 22, 2001
Historians
Joseph Ellis and Annette Gordon-Reed discuss Jefferson and his
legacy.
BOOKS & BEYOND, July 25, 2000.
Harold
Bloom discusses his book How to Read and Why,
BOOKS & BEYOND,June 28, 2000.
Poetry and the
American People: Reading, Voice, and Publication in the 19th
and 20th Centuries, a Library of Congress Bicentennial symposium
sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Center for the Book
in the Library of Congress, the Madison Council of the Library
of Congress, the Library's Poetry and Literature Center, and
the Poetry Society of America - April 4, 2000.
The
discussion between William Styron and Styron biographer James
L.W. West III,
BOOKS & BEYOND, November 4, 1998. |