Correspondence of the Director of the Library of Congress with the President of the United States: on the History of Acquisition of the Collection of G.V. Yudin

2013 ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Harold Leich ◽  
Anastasia A. Korniyenko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Library

The article presents the unpublished correspondence of October, 1906, between the Librarian of Congress and the President of the United States, where there are discussed the advantages and disadvantages of acquiring by the Library of the large personal library (81,000 volumes) of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant. The article also presents the Memorandum from a previous Librarian of Congress, arguing strongly against the purchase of the collection.

Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800-1917

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-149
Author(s):  
Gillian B. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
National Library ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Between 1800 and 1917 the music section at the Library of Congress grew from a few items in The Gentleman's Magazine to almost a million items. The history of this development provides a unique view of the infant discipline of musicology and the central role that libraries played in its growth in the United States. Between 1800 and 1870 only 500 items were acquired by the music section at the Library of Congress. In 1870 approximately 36,000 copyright deposits (which had been accumulating at several copyright depositories since 1789) enlarged the music section by more than seventy fold. After 1870 the copyright process brought an avalanche of music items into the Library of Congress. In 1901 Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, hired American-born, German-educated Oscar Sonneck to be the second Chief of the Music Division. Together Putnam and Sonneck produced an ambitious acquisitions program, a far-sighted classification, cataloging, and shelving scheme, and an extensive series of publications. They were part of Putnam's strategy to transform the Library of Congress from a legislative into a national library. Sonneck wanted to make American students of music independent of European libraries and to establish the discipline of musicology in the United States. Through easy access to comprehensive and diverse collections Putnam and Sonneck succeeded in making the Library of Congress and its music section a symbol of the free society that it served.

Advanced Studies in Folklore

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Susan G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cover Songs

In 1953, forced out of business by postal authorities, Legman moved to Paris. There he turned his attention to a long-planned series, Advanced Studies in Folklore, which he hoped would eventually cover songs, stories, jokes, rhymes, and vocabulary, as well as nonverbal forms like gestures and graffiti. His first volume in the series was anonymous, The Limerick (1954), which garnered him fans in the United States and provided a modest income. Legman moved on to research folk songs in English that had been censored or ignored because of their erotic or obscene content. His “Ballad” project would occupy Legman for decades. As he worked on it, Legman corresponded extensively with folklorists such as Roger Abrahams, Vance Randolph, and Kenneth Goldstein and with archivists at the Library of Congress. His letters reveal his romantic, textual orientation toward folk song and show his efforts to open folklore study to consideration of obscenity and erotica. Legman’s persistent research led to such important discoveries as an unpublished song manuscript by Robert Burns and to a deep understanding of the history of folk song collecting. It also gave him productive friendships with the British folklorists and folk song revival singers Ewan MacColl and Hamish Henderson.

Confession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
American Catholic

Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in the United States from about 1634, the origin of Catholicism in Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65). The history of the Catholic theology and practice of penance is analyzed within the larger context of American Protestant penitential theology and discipline and in connection with divergent interpretations of biblical penitential language (sin, repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation) that Jews, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics shared in the American body politic. The overall argument of the text is that the Catholic theology and practice of penance, so much opposed by the inheritors of the Protestant Reformation, kept alive the biblical penitential language in the United States at least until the mid 1960s when Catholic penitential discipline changed and the practice of sacramental confession declined precipitously. Those changes within the American Catholic tradition contributed to the more general eclipse of penitential language in American society as a whole. From the 1960s onward penitential language was overshadowed increasingly by the language of conflict and controversy. In the current climate of controversy and conflict, such a text may help Americans understand how much their society has departed from the penitential language of the earlier American tradition and consider what the advantages and disadvantages of such a departure are.

Introduction

1958 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-339
Author(s):  
Antonine S. Tibesar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of

The “Conference on the History of Religion in the New World during Colonial Times,” which had been announced in The Americas (XIV, No. 2 (October, 1957), 191 f. & No. 3 (January, 1958), 313 f.), was held in the Woodrow Wilson room of the Library of Congress on December 17 and 18, 1957. Twenty-nine historians took part in the discussion of the formal studies which had been prepared in accordance with the published program. They had gathered from Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the United States. A number of students also attended from universities in this country and Canada.

Review of A brief history of the United States.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of
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