LoCsmiths

October 9, 2024 10:46 AM

Enjoy the Library of Congress' Magazine back issues for free. See for example, Great Photographs. And Brilliant Broadway. Or A Century of Fashion. The task of Saving the Sounds. Perhaps Secrets Revealed.

Each issue has a collection of shorter but no less intriguing stories on historical items, archival challenges and trivia.

posted by storybored (6 comments total)

The LoC's magazine is great! I'll add the National Endowment for the Humanities' free online magazine Humanities, which has back issues going back to 2007.
posted by the sobsister at 11:32 AM on October 9, 2024 [2 favorites]

And the National Endowment for the Arts also has a magazine/newsletter: American Artscape (formerly NEA Arts), which is also available online, more or less to 2010.
posted by the sobsister at 11:36 AM on October 9, 2024 [3 favorites]

Well isn't this neat? I'd like to think that you can notice a slight shift in the LoC after the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, took office in 2016. And I get Humanities in my mailbox when it comes out and I always think I won't be that interested in it and it's fascinating.
posted by jessamyn at 12:13 PM on October 9, 2024 [2 favorites]

Oh my goodness.

storyboard, you have just made my day. (AND you, the sobsister!)

I love the LoC and I love stuff I can download.

I am filled with joy.

Thank you!
posted by kristi at 12:52 PM on October 9, 2024 [2 favorites]

I think my mom was once one of the employees profiled in its predecessor, the Information Bulletin. I don't think I could even narrow down the decade though.

LoC is one of the federal government's gems, and I'm proud of my family's history with it.
posted by biogeo at 4:47 PM on October 9, 2024 [3 favorites]

Thank you sobsister for Humanities! That's a new one for me.
posted by storybored at 9:49 PM on October 10, 2024 [1 favorite]