Great historic audio clips about Jackie Robinson’s first baseball game as the first African American to play in the major leagues over at NPR. HOWEVER, folks in Toledo, OH (my hometown!) give credit to Fleet Walker.
From over at PR WEb: PoeticWorks has 25 immediate part time positions that are perfect for someone who loves to frequent poetry events. One can perform Spoken Word, interact with interesting people and get the word out about the many different publishing options available by PoeticWorks to assist them in writing/publishing their work.
Joint REFORMA Northeast, AILA, APALA, BCALA, and CALA Mini-Conference “Breaking Down Barriers to Serve our Diverse Communities” Joint REFORMA Northeast AILA, APALA, BCALA, and CALA Mini-Conference May 18, 2007 Chatham Square Library 33 East Broadway [near Catherine St.], New York, NY 10002-6804 Draft Schedule 10:30 – 11:00 Library Tour 11:10-12:00 How to coordinate new services… Read More Breaking Down Barriers to Serve our Diverse Communities
The Library of Congress announces the launch of a new Web site devoted to the history of the hymn *Amazing Grace,* and the Library*s Chasanoff/Elozua Amazing Grace Collection, which is comprised of 3,049 published recordings of the hymn by different individual musicians or musical ensembles. This site is a joint venture of the Motion Picture,… Read More Library of Congress Presents: New Web Site on the History of the Hymn “Amazing Grace” and the Chasanoff/Elozua Amazing Grace Collection
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities announce the release of “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” an online presentation containing more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.
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