New Videos from the Library of Congress, Jan. 23

You are subscribed to New Videos from the Library of Congress. Art in Action, Gods of the Upper Air & 100 Years of Women Voting Watch these new videos on the Library of Congress website. Art in Action: A Conversation with Helen Zughaib Helen Zughaib discusses her silkscreen print, "Unfinished Journeys," which responds to the Syrian migration crisis and is featured in the Library of Congress exhibition "Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times." Art in Action: A Conversation with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. discusses his motivation, practice, technique and philosophy as a socially-conscious letterpress printer, as well as his poster, "Racism Is Still with Us..." from his Rosa Parks series, featured in the Library of Congress exhibition "Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times." Gods of the Upper Air Charles King discussed his book, "Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the 20th Century," a group portrait of Franz Boas (1858-1942), the pioneering German-American professor of anthropology at Columbia University, and some of his most eminent students: Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Benedict and Ella Cara Deloria. The Circadian Clock and Shift Work in the 21st Century Michael Smolensky discusses the body's circadian rhythm and its role in the personal health of shift workers. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality Danielle Allen drew from her own experience teaching the Declaration of Independence as well as from historical sources in writing her book, "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality." 100 Years of Women Voting Christina Wolbrecht, co-author of the 2016 book "Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal," joins Jane Junn, of the University of Southern California and the Library's Colleen Shogan for a discussion of 100 years of women voting, in connection with the Library's exhibition "Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote."   Home  |  About  |  Contact Subscriber Preferences & Unsubscribe  |  Subscriber Help   This email was sent to stevenmagallanes520.nims@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: Library of Congress · 101 Independence Ave, SE · Washington, DC 20540 · 202-707-5000