American Women – A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources

The Library of Congress does it again with American Women – A Gateway to the Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States. It provides sources on women, centered around reading rooms at the Library of Congress, such as Newspapers and Current Periodicals, Prints and Photographs, Manuscripts, and Rare books. You can also browse a table of contents or use keyword searches.

Pinterest convert

The Library of Congress now has a Pinterest account. There is certainly a lot to admire there.

Get schooled

Justice 101 helps with learning more about the legal justice system. Done by Offices of the United States Attorney, it provides a glossary and other basics.

It's notable gov docs awards time!

GPO showcases some of the best government publications of the past year.

Digital dictionaries

Georgetown has 'em.

Materials on 20th century international affairs

Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified documents on  from over one hundred different archives in dozens of different countries—many of them in translation and all of them freely available.

Congress.gov

New features added to Congress.gov

Boies/Olson

On Colbert tonight!

Articles on Supreme Court revisions, etc.

Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing by Adam Liptak, May 24, 2014 (re the upcoming article, "The (Non)Finality of Supreme Court Opinions, by Richard J. Lazarus, 128 HARV. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2014));

Who owns the law? Technology reignites the war over just how public documents should be, from ABA Journal, June 1, 2014;

Which Version of Dred Scott, Plessy, or Bush v. Gore Do You Want?: U.S. Supreme Court Rewrites (ur, edits) Past Opinions, this article and heads up on the others from Oregon law librarian, Laura Orr.

Flag Day

President Truman signed the Joint Resolution that designated June 14 of each year as Flag Day.

Jeannette Rankin

From Ms. Magazine - The first woman in Congress, Jeannette Rankin, was born on this day in 1880. She was elected in Montana in 1916 and again in 1940. A lifelong pacifist, she was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. Colleagues demanded she change her vote so the decision would be unanimous, but she refused. Men in the gallery hissed at her when she cast her opposing vote, and an angry mob even followed her after the adjournment.

Book shelf as art

By Lara Favaretto - One of the rotating pics on this MOMA site.

Indoor pet info

Cat edition. 

The first Pulitzer Prizes

National Women's History Museum  had this item - In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. The first Pulitzer for biography was awarded to Laura E. Richards and Maude H. Elliott for their collaborative biography of their mother, Julia Ward Howe.

It was the third of June...

NPR piece on Ode to Billie Joe.

Movies featuring bookstores

15 of 'em, at least.