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He also said that the American institution that best exemplified the American dream was the Library of Congress; he contrasted it with European libraries of the time, which restricted access to many of their works, and argued that the Library, as an institution funded by and meant to uphold democracy, was an example of democratic government's ...
The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (Library of Congress, 2000) Cole, John Young. Jefferson's legacy: a brief history of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, 1993) Cole, John Young. "The library of congress becomes a world library, 1815–2005." Libraries & culture (2005) 40#3: 385–398. in Project MUSE
American Memory is an Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content. Published by the Library of Congress, the archive launched on October 13, 1994, after $13 million was raised in private donations. [1]
The Library of Congress is so huge that it takes in three separate buildings on Capitol Hill; the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John Adams Building, and the James Madison Memorial Building. With ...
The Court of Neptune Fountain is a fountain adorned with bronze sculptures made by Roland Hinton Perry and Albert Weinert in the late 1890s. Jerome Connor may have assisted in their manufacture. The architects for the project, which was completed in 1898, included John L. Smithmeyer , Paul J. Pelz , and Edward Pearce Casey , while the founding ...
Library of Congress and Healy Hall, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and Carnegie Library (now Hazlett Theater), in Pittsburgh\\ Paul Johannes Pelz (18 November 1841 – 30 March 1918) was a German-American architect, best known as the main architect of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
The American Dream is over — at least in the way it was traditionally defined. That probably isn’t a surprise to younger generations who grew up during the Great Recession, faced a pandemic ...
The American Dream costs over $1 million more than most Americans will make in their lifetime at $4.4 million. The exact multimillion dollar figure the American Dream now costs, according to ...