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Julia McCue, Web content producer January 14, 2008

AMONG THE MANY stellar Web offerings from the Library of Congress is Today in History. While not a novel idea, this site is so rich that it may be the best in an overcrowded field. (I had to throw in a library pun even if this site isn't about books.)

CHOOSING the historic facts from a collection of sources, the library draws on the American Memory Collection for primary sources.

THE ANNIVERSARY of the completion of the first transcontinental telegraph is the springboard to a discussion of the Pony Express with photographs. The date of the opening of New York's Metropolitan Opera is commemorated at the LOC site with a 1916 recording of Verdi's aria "O Patria Mia," opera posters and a discussion of Thomas Alva Edison's invention of sound recording (and links to allow you to listen to sound recordings made by his company).

THIS MIGHT be a good home page for your Web browser.

GO TO: Library of Congress Today in History