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Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
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TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
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Library of Congress Jon Kabat-Zinn: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Jon Kabat-Zinn at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Jonathan Safran Foer: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Jonathan Safran Foer at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Judith Warner: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Judith Warner at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Kim Addonizio: Book Fest 05 Talk Author and poet Kim Addonizio at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Leeza Gibbons: Book Fest 05 Talk Author and journalist Leeza Gibbons at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Laura Numeroff: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Laura Numeroff at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Laurie Smith: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Laurie Smith at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Linda Sue Park: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Linda Sue Park at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Meg Cabot: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Meg Cabot at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Myrka Dellanos: Book Fest 05 Talk Author and journalist Myrka Dellanos at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Mary Jo Salter: Book Fest 05 Talk Author and poet Mary Jo Salter at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Marcia Muller: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Marcia Muller at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Mary Pope Osborne: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Mary Pope Osborne at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Nevada Barr: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Nevada Barr at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Patricia Reilly Giff: Book Fest 05 Talk Patricia Reilly Giff at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Robert L. Carter: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Robert L. Carter at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Robert MacNeil: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Robert MacNeil at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Rene Saldana: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Rene Saldana at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Samuel Menashe: Book Fest 05 Talk Author and poet Samuel Menashe at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Sue Monk Kidd: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Sue Monk Kidd at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress Steve Roberts: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Steve Roberts at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Thomas Friedman: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Thomas Friedman at the 2005 National Book Festival Library of Congress Tom Wolfe: Book Fest 05 Talk Author Tom Wolfe at the 2005 National Book Festival. Library of Congress 2025 National Book Festival Sizzle 2025 · Talk 2025 National Book Festival Sizzle Library of Congress 2026 National Book Festival Promo 2026 · Talk 2026 National Book Festival Promo Library of Congress Extraordinary Rendition: Constitutional Issues 2007 · Talk The Law Library hosted a panel discussion on "Extraordinary Rendition: Constitutional Issues" as a part of the Law Library's Speaker Series and the 175th… Library of Congress A Panel Discussion on Torture, Detainees and the U.S. Military 2007 · Talk The Law Library of Congress hosted this first program in its new multimedia room. Law Library Scholar in Residence Gary Solis moderated the panel discussion… Library of Congress The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 2008 · Talk The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings has been a subject of speculation for centuries and even more so in the past decade, when DNA… Library of Congress Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda 2009 · Talk Author Lee Ann Fujii addresses some of the causes of the genocide that took place in Rwanda 15 years ago, killing nearly one million people in a span of 100… Library of Congress Dangerous Music: Suckers, Firestarters, & Cultural Anarchists, Oh My! 2009 · Talk Norman Middleton and Jessica Krash discuss "dangerous classical music" and marketing, examine the relation between high art and popular art and the mental and… Library of Congress Victor Fleming: American Master 2009 · Talk Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director during Hollywood's golden age, renowned for his ability to make films across an astounding range of genres:… Library of Congress Kislak Ceramics: Drugs, Drinks, and Ritual Goods, Actual or Imaginary Content?" 2010 · Talk Speaker Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman, Kislak Fellow, presents "Kislak Ceramics: Drugs, Drinks, and Ritual Goods, Actual or Imaginary Content". The ancient Maya… Library of Congress Transitional Justice or Just Transitions?: The German Case, 1945-50 2010 · Talk While everyone has heard of the Nuremberg Trials, few people are aware that at that same time, tens of thousands of Germans were being prosecuted in German… Library of Congress We Must Learn to Think in Terms of Collective Action:" Industrial Democracy and the Civil Rights Establishment of the 1930s 2011 · Talk Toure F. Reed examines the influence of labor activism on the civil rights agendas of the NAACP and National Urban League and challenges presumptions about… Library of Congress Liberty or Death: Slaves' Suicides & the Fight to Destroy American Slavery 2011 · Talk As northern abolitionists set about trying to exploit mass media to denounce and destroy American slavery, they found themselves wrestling with the problem of… Library of Congress Mystery of the "Place of Dog Tail" 2012 · Talk Anastasia Kalyuta offers a comparative analysis of land tenure and related practices of inheritance, land distribution and exploitation among Aztec nobility… Library of Congress The Cinderella No One Knows: The Grimm Brothers' Tale of Incest, Fur & Hidden Bodies 2013 · Talk Folklorist Margaret R. Yocom discusses less well-known versions of Cinderella, particularly the international story of Allerleirauh, found in Asia and Africa… Library of Congress Digital Public Library of America 2013 · Talk The Digital Public Library of America's director for content, Emily Gore, speaks at Digital Preservation 2013. Library of Congress Civil Rights Act Exhibition Opening Program 2014 · Talk The opening ceremony of the Library exhibition, "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom," which explores the events that shaped the civil… Library of Congress Memorialization & Justice as an Ancestral Imperative: Two American Cases 2015 · Talk The role of orally transmitted ancestral memory in ongoing struggles to overcome past injustices is proving critical in the struggle for human rights, civil… Library of Congress Decolonization & the Sexual Revolution 2015 · Talk Historian Todd Shepard examines public debates about sex in France during the 1960s and 70s, and explores how what made this so-called revolution "French,"… Library of Congress South Korean Government Policies on Prostitution 2016 · Talk Kluge Fellow Jeong-Mi Park discusses how the South Korean government controlled prostitution catering to servicemen in the last century, in the context of… Library of Congress Queer Iberia: Sexualities & Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 2016 · Talk Josiah Blackmore and Gregory Hutcheson discuss their book "Queer Iberia," which looks at the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the… Library of Congress Anne-Marie Slaughter: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses "Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family" with Mary Louise Kelly from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in… Library of Congress Entre Alambradas y Exilios 2017 · Talk Jose María Naharro-Calderón discussed his new book "Entre alambradas y exilios: Sangrías de las Españas: Sangrías de las Españas y terapias de Vichy" with… Library of Congress The Kishineff Massacre & Domestic Musical Practice in America 2017 · Talk Drawing on the resources of the Heskes Collection of Yiddish American Sheet Music and the Historic Sheet Music Collection, Randall Goldberg explored the… Library of Congress Rwanda Women Rising 2017 · Talk Swanee Hunt discussed her book "Rwandan Women Rising," the story of how the female population of the tiny African nation led that country's rebirth after the…