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What’s a Library For?
The British destroyed our original Library of Congress and the 3,000 books it housed, in 1814 during the War of 1812... Today, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and holds 173 million items, 39 million of them are books. Every day 15,000 items are added to the collection by the library's 3,000 employees.
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Tagged American Library Association, book banning, British, children, Congress, Crank, drag queen, Drag Queen Story Hour, Ellen Hopkins, Emily Drabinski, It’s Perfectly Normal, Judeo-Christian values, library, Library of Congress, Marxist, Russian Revolution, This Book is Gay, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, What’s a Library For?
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Revisionist History Comes for The Great Emancipator
Statues depicting prominent figures in U.S. history have been coming down across the nation. The actions of those portrayed are being reevaluated through the eyes of some who feel their past bad deeds outweigh any of the good they accomplished, with no regard given to the common mores of past centuries. Someone living four centuries ago is held up to 21st century standards.
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Chickamauga, Cancel culture, Charlotte Scott, Emancipation Memorial Statue, Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, Frederick Douglass, French Revolution, Great Emancipator, Hans Christian Heg, John Wilkes Booth, Marcia Cole, Russian Revolution, Ulysses Grant
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