02875cgm a22003373i 4500 24123722 20250607133337.6 cr ||a|||||||| 250304s2023 dcu||| | fo vleng 24123722 0 ibc orignew u ncip 20 y-gencatlg 2025661290 11028 DLC eng DLC Rewriting America: Archival Resources In Creative Culture and Media Productions. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-06-16. 1 online resource two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Group name: Rewriting America: Reconsidering the Federal Writer's Project 80 Years Later. 3 C. Zawadi Morris, Carole Emberton, Guha Shankar, David Taylor, Catherine Hiebert Kerst. Recorded on 2023-06-16. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers' Project (1935-39). The event focused attention on the ways in which the Library's extraordinary archival collection of materials continues to inform and inspire public outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship in fields ranging from public and oral history to journalism to ethnic studies and folklore. The focused presentations by a wide array of participants have the broader aim of considering how the stories of Americans are central to our diverse national identity and to preserving our democracy. Roundtable discussion on surveying the contemporary scene of archival resources in creative culture and media productions. The program iswasanchored by contributing authors to the recently published "Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project." It featured a rich array of scholarship on topics including new readings of the narratives of formerly enslaved African Americans, the practice and production of oral history podcasts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and emergent research into the once-obscured work of Asian American and Mexican American writers in the Federal Writers' Project. Other scholars, such as historians John Edgar Tidwell, Catherine Stewart and Carole Emberton participated in roundtable discussions alongside Library curators, folklorists and media producers. Library of Congress. American Folklife Center, sponsoring body. Event video gdcwebcasts 230616afc0900_04 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcwebcasts.230616afc0900_04 gdc/webcasts rewriting_america_reconsidering_the_federal_writers_project_80_years_later afc s-Online Electronic Resource