More Audio, Video Resources at the Library
![Slave Narratives](slavenarratives/images/feature_photo.gif)
![Featured Series: Slave Narratives](slavenarratives/images/featured-series.gif)
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.
![Music in the Brain](musicandthebrain/images/music-brain_feature.gif)
![Featured Series: Music and the Brain](images/featured_series.gif)
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.
|| Interviews with Authors and Poets from 2008 National Book Festival ||
![Peter Robinson](images/teaser_thumb_robinson.jpg)
Crime novelist Peter Robinson talks about how his character Inspector Banks has evolved over 21 years.
![Dionne Warwick](images/teaser_thumb_warwick.jpg)
Five Grammy Awards and 60 charted hits, music legend Dionne Warwick says she is still reaching for her dream
![Marisa de los Santos](images/teaser_thumb_santos.jpg)