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Frido Mann: Democracy Will Win

Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, Frido Mann spoke about current threats to democracy in America and Europe on his tour through more than a dozen cities in the U.S. and Canada as part of the “Wunderbar Together” Year of German-American Friendship. – Author and psychologist Frido Mann is grandson of of German writer Thomas Mann. After fleeing Europe just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Thomas Mann toured the U.S. with a series of lectures on the dangers of fascism for liberal democracy. The elder Mann also gave several lectures at the Library of Congress, where he served as consultant on Germanic literature for three years beginning in 1942 and remained a Library Fellow in German Literature until his death.

For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8933

Homegrown Archive Challenge Concert

For this edition of its Archive Challenges series, the American Folklife Center has invited several distinguished artists to dig into its archives and put their own creative stamps on the songs they find here. Established at the Library in 1928, the Archive of Folk Culture contains everything from the first wax cylinder recordings of Native American song, to John and Alan Lomax’s pioneering disc-era recordings, to recent digital documentation of folk concerts of all kinds. Best known performers in the archives include Muddy Waters, Pete Seeger, Honeyboy Edwards, Woody Guthrie, Aunt Molly Jackson, Lead Belly, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Jean Ritchie and soon, the performers in this showcase.

For more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8955

Leadership Lessons from Lincoln & Grant

Ronald C. White discussed what the lives and presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant can teach us about leadership with the Library’s Colleen Shogan. The Library of Congress holds Lincoln and Grant’s papers, which are available online.

– Ronald C. White is a historian and author of award-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

– Colleen J. Shogan is the assistant deputy librarian in the Library Collection and Services Group at the Library of Congress.

For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8942

2019 National Book Festival Gala

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden hosted the Library of Congress National Book Festival Gala on the eve of the Festival itself. The recipients of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards were announced as well as presentations from authors such as Evan Thomas, R.O. Kwon, Casey Gerald, R.J. Palacio and Richard Ford, recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8948