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  • Ninth Annual State of the Nigerian Nation Symposium: Afternoon Session

    The African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division and the Nigeria Peoples Forum-USA jointly hosted the Ninth Annual State of the Nigerian Nation Symposium -- Developing Nigeria's Power Sector: Strategies, Challenges and Impact.

    • Contributor: Various
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2008-10-10
  • Walt Whitman: Literary Birthday Celebration

    Poets Joshua Beckman and Stanley Plumly celebrate the birthday of American poet Walt Whitman by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing.

    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2012-05-31
  • Kay Ryan: 2008 National Book Festival

    Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009, speaks at the National Book Festival.

    • Contributor: Ryan, Kay
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2008-09-27
  • Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri

    By an amazing string of chance events, young Dennis Stroughmatt came upon the descendants of French Midwestern settlers, and he spent over three years in southeast Missouri learning to speak Illinois French Creole, play the fiddle, and sing many of the traditional songs that have thrived in the region for over three hundred years. He would also go on to live, work and play ...

    • Contributor: Stroughmatt, Dennis
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2012-06-21
  • Bobbitt Prize Reading: Patricia Smith

    Patricia Smith, winner of the 13th Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, reads selections from her poetry collection, "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah."

    • Contributor: Smith, Patricia
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2015-04-06
  • Sodom Laurel Album Explores North Carolina Mountain Community

    The visual and oral history of a rural mountain community called Sodom Laurel, and one family steeped in the tradition of the area, are the focus of a new book and accompanying CD by Rob Amberg and Sheila Kay Adams.

    • Contributor: Amberg, Rob
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2003-04-21
  • Hilltop outtake: Shot of first row to tenth row

    • Contributor: McCann Erickson
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 1971-00-00
  • Charles Melvin Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia,

    Charles Sherrod recalls how he became involved in the Albany Movement in Georgia, recruited local residents, and led marches and protests against segregation.

    • Contributor: Sherrod, Charles - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2011

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  • Laura Numeroff: Book Fest 05

    Author Laura Numeroff at the 2005 National Book Festival

    • Contributor: Numeroff, Laura
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2005-09-24
  • [Color experiment: Pouring Coca-Cola bottle contents into a glass of ice (1 of 5)]

    • Contributor: McCann Erickson
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 1964-00-00
  • Haiti, 1932-1937

    This clip, from Fred Allsop's private collection, shows boys performing a scissors dance during Mardi Gras in Haiti. Originally recorded on 8mm, the film includes other Mardi Gras celebrations including parades with floats, men and women wearing elaborate costumes and masks, and a stilt dancer. (Content).

    • Contributor: Allsop, Fred
    • Original Format: Film, Video
  • President McKinley's funeral cortege at Buffalo, N.Y. /

    The photography in this film is from several camera positions. The first position was over the heads of the crowds that lined the street watching the cortege begin. Mounted police precede the escort for the funeral procession. the next camera position is from the other side of the spectators and reveals the escort of various military organizations represented (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, West Point ...

    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 1901
  • The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in 1950s Ireland

    The American folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) has been marginalized in the histories of the many places where she worked during her twenty-year career, including North America, Europe, India, Asia, and the Middle East. The talk focuses specifically on her work in Ireland on the music of Conamara and the Aran Islands in 1955 and 1956, work that is largely unknown to ...

    • Contributor: Chonghaile, Deirdre Ni
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2012-09-20
  • Prime Minister of Barbados

    The Right Honorable Owen Seymour Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, came to the Library of Congress to deliver an historic address concerning the formation and evolution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). As prime minister with responsibility for CSME, his presentation focused upon the development and evolution of a transnational union of Caribbean countries comprising, in 2007, ...

    • Contributor: Arthur, Owen Seymour
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2007-06-18
  • Ralph Ellison: A Biography

    Ralph Ellison never produced another novel in his lifetime after his magnum opus "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award in 1953. Did success ruin him? This is one theme in the new biography of Ellison by Arnold Rampersad, the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers at the Library of Congress. Rampersad discussed and signed his book, "Ralph Ellison: A Biography," ...

    • Contributor: Rampersad, Arnold
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2007-05-03
  • Danny Kaye - Africa and Asia

    videorecording | 16mm color film | This footage shows people, wildlife, and architecture from various locales in Africa and Asia. The first portion of the film appears to be shot at a Kikuyu guard post in Kenya. (See MAVIS no. 126855). Some later sections appear to be related to Danny Kaye's UNICEF work. (Print viewed). (General). MAVIS record number: 1843843-1-1287952-4 (General). From: Home Movies ...

    • Original Format: Film, Video
  • Sudan: A Nation in Turbulent Search for Itself

    Francis Deng, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center discussed the African nation of Sudan.

    • Contributor: Deng, Francis
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2005-11-02
  • First Experience

    • Contributor: Leo Burnett Usa
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 1999-00-00
  • Afghan Women's Stories: the Problematics of Cover

    Afghan women in burkas have become iconic representations of women's oppression in western media, but this representation is contested in various ways by Afghan women and men. The most common observation by Afghan women activists is that we westerners should get over it, that the burka, hot, uncomfortable and inconvenient as it is, is certainly not their most pressing problem. It has even proved ...

    • Contributor: Mills, Margaret
    • Original Format: Film, Video - Manuscripts/Mixed Material - Collection
    • Date: 2007-09-19
  • Folk Music, Archives & Performing: Experiences, Adventures & Great Stories

    Folklorist Joe Hickerson about his career as an archivist, researcher, singer and songwriter.

    • Contributor: Hickerson, Joe
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2014-07-15
  • The Geneva Conventions at 60: Taking Stock

    The Law Library of Congress, the American Red Cross and the Friends of the Law Library of Congress present a program to mark the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. The discussion begins with a brief history of the origins of these ground-breaking treaties and the role played by the Red Cross. A panel examines the Conventions' roots as the foundation of ...

    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2009-12-03
  • Italy's Gastronomic Traditions

    Food historian Francine Segan discussed Italian cuisine.

    • Contributor: Segan, Francine
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2015-03-19
  • Ann Kidd Taylor: 2009 National Book Festival

    Ann Kidd Taylor, co-authoring a memoir with her mother Sue Monk Kidd appears at the National Book Festival.

    • Contributor: Kidd Taylor, Ann
    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2009-09-26
  • Animals, Inc.

    Gallup Organization executives Kenneth A. Tucker and Vandana Allman discussed their new book, "Animals, Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21st Century."

    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2004-06-14
  • Depression and Creativity Symposium

    Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, convened a discussion of the effects of depression on creativity. Joining Jamison were two distinguished colleagues from the fields of neurology and neuropsychiatry, Dr. Terence Ketter and Dr. Peter Whybrow. The Music and the Brain series is co-sponsored ...

    • Original Format: Film, Video
    • Date: 2009-02-03