"Soul Man" is a 1967 song written and composed by #IsaacHayes and #DavidPorter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by #AtlanticRecords soul duo #SamAndDave, which consisted of #SamuelSamMoore and #DavidDavePrater. In 2019, "#SoulMan" was selected for preservation in the #NationalRecordingRegistry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the #LibraryOfCongress.
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Sam & Dave - Soul Man [HQ Audio]

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Library of Congress: Celebrating Seven Years of By the People. “Happy Spring to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday to us” blog post right here on the Signal (you can check out previous years’ editions here and here). We turned seven during the Fall of last year and we’ve been waiting to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/library-of-congress-celebrating-seven-years-of-by-the-people/
Library of Congress: Celebrating Seven Years of By the People

Library of Congress: Celebrating Seven Years of By the People. “Happy Spring to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publish…

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The Magic of Alphonse Mucha | Timeless

More than a dozen striking images by Alphonse Mucha, the Czech artist widely credited as an originator of the art nouveau style, are preserved at the Library. He got his big break when he happened to be in his Paris office when Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress, needed help with an advertising poster for one of her plays. A star was born (offscreen, in this case).

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New-to-me, from Library of Congress: Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive. “As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/07/preserving-u-s-indigenous-government-websites-from-directory-to-digital-archive-library-of-congress/

Another corner of Soper kitchen. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72

#Soper #WillowCreek #MalheurCounty #Oregon #DorotheaLange #LibraryofCongress #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773643/

First Film to Depict a Robot Discovered in Michigan

Created in 1897, it's over two decades older than the term "robot."

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