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The Culture and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection
Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by HERBLOCK
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
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Bob Hope and American Variety
   Opened May 10, 2000
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
   August 13, 1992 - February 14, 1993
The African-American Mosaic: African-American Culture and History
   February 9 - August 29, 1994
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
   February 5 - May 5, 1998
Al Hirschfeld - Beyond Broadway
   November 9, 2000 - March 31, 2001
The American Colony in Jerusalem
   January 12 - April 2, 2005
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
   Opened May 5, 1997
Ancient Manuscripts: From the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
   June 24 - September 3, 2003
Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
   December 9, 1999 - May 6, 2000
Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
   Dec. 12, 2005 - June 17, 2006
Blondie Gets Married! Comic Strip Drawings by Chic Young
   June 22 - September 16, 2000
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943
   September 8 - January 21, 2006
Churchill and the Great Republic
   February 5 - July 10, 2004
Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop
   February 20 - July 26, 2003
Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale
de France

   September 8 - December 31, 1995
The Cultures and History of the Americas: The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
   April 20 - October 1, 2005
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
   June 29 - July 4, 1995
Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library
   April 11 - July 13, 1996
The Dream of Flight
   October 4, 2003 - April 24, 2004
Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
   Opened July 23, 2002
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
   April 17 - August 11, 2001
Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by HERBLOCK
    July 17, 2006 - January 20, 2007
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
   September 27, 2001 - January 19, 2002
For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
   June 2 - August 30, 1997
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-32
   November 14, 1996 - February 16, 1997
From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
   September 9 - December 30, 2004
From the Home Front and the Front Lines
    May 24, 2004 - November 13, 2004
The Gettysburg Address
   January 12 - 19, 1995
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books
   February 4 - July 9, 2005
Herblock's Gift: Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection
   March 12 - June 28, 2003
Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
   October 17, 2000 - February 17, 2001
Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
    June 3 - September 11, 2004
"I Do Solemnly Swear..." Inaugural Materials from the Collections
of the Library of Congress
   Opened January 8, 2005
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
   October 7, 1994 - March 4, 1995
John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
   November 18, 1999 - March 4, 2000
Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America
   August 5, 1993 - January 18, 1994
Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings from the Ben & Beatrice Goldstein Collection
   October 20, 1999 - January 29, 2000
Los Angeles Mapped
   January 28, 2006 - January 2007
Madison's Treasures
   One day only, March 16, 2001
Maps in Our Lives
   September 14, 2005 - January 6, 2007
Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
   November 30, 2001- May 31, 2002
Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Library of Congress
   February 25 - July 6, 1998
Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress
   April 29 - August 15, 1998
Petal From the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
   June 28-September 29, 2001
Reflections: Russian Photographs, 1992–2002
   September 14 - December 27, 2003
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
   June 4 - August 29, 1998
Revelations from the Russian Archives
   June 15 - July 16, 1992
Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
   May 16 - December 3, 2005
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
   July 24, 2003 - November 29, 2003
Roger L. Stevens Presents
   May 16 - September 7, 2002
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
   January 8 - April 30, 1993
Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
   April 29 - August 1, 1993
Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture
   October 15, 1998 - January 16, 1999
Stagestruck!: Performing Arts Caricatures at the Library of Congress
   November 5 1998 - April 3, 1999
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
   February 24 - July 4, 1994
Thomas Jefferson
   April 24 - October 31, 2000
Voices of Civil Rights
    February 24 - March 26, 2005
The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
   June 10 - September 18, 1999
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood
    September 26, 2002 - March 22, 2003
"With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty
    May 13 - November 13, 2004
Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
    September 7 - October 26, 2002
The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale
   April 21 - September 23, 2000
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII
   September 28 - November 18, 1995
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
   May 20 - September 4, 1999
World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
   June 7, 2001 - March 15, 2003

 

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