(RNS) — The Library of Congress has received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the Lilly Endowment that will help launch programs that foster greater understanding of religious cultures in ...

(RNS) — The only known existing autobiography of a slave written in Arabic in America is now freely available to the public online, thanks to the Library of Congress.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves can now be found at the Library of Congress. The e-book that showcases all of the interviews can ...

Library of Congress acquires iconic Civil War image of master and slave headed to war August 24, 2014 Sgt. Andrew Martin Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Regiment, left, and Silas Chandler pose in ...

As a slave, he was called “Morro” or “Uncle Moreau.” ... Library of Congress shares slave memoir written in Arabic. By Michael E. Ruane | Washington Post; Jan 20, 2019 ...

Judy Woodruff: A one-of-a-kind manuscript written by a slave has now been preserved in the Library of Congress. The Arabic-language autobiography spent decades in private collections, before the ...

The Library of Congress on Capitol Hill holds a number of artifacts from the march. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman takes a tour of the collection. Aug 28, 2023 ...

For the second time this month, the Library of Congress bowed to criticism and Tuesday scrapped an exhibit – this time, on the day the show was supposed to open to the public. Library workers… ...

All images from Library of Congress unless otherwise noted. ... How many enslaved Africans were brought to the New World between 1526 and 1867 as part of the Atlantic slave trade? 2.5 million. 6.2 ...

Some classics of Black cinema will be added to into the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, including 12 Years a Slave, Bamboozled, and Love & Basketball.

Library of Congress In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map , approximately two feet by three feet, titled a "Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the ...

The only known existing autobiography of a slave written in Arabic in America is now freely available to the public online, thanks to the Library of Congress. Omar ibn Said, born in about 1770 in m… ...