Long recognized as a classic of American literature and very often styled as the “Great American Novel,” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has now found its place among the legal classics available to users of HeinOnline through the Legal Classics Library.
Read moreNational News Literacy Week - Jan. 25 - 29, 2021
This week marks the second annual National News Literacy Week, a joint effort by the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company, “to promote news literacy as a fundamental life skill and to provide the public with the tools needed to be an informed and empowered populace.”
Read moreFree UH Law Center CLE: Immigration in the Time of COVID 19: Asylum and Beyond
On Friday, January 29, the University of Houston Law Center is offering a Clinical Legal Education Program entitled Immigration in the Time of COVID 19: Asylum and Beyond. Additional resources on the topics of immigration and asylum in the U.S. are included.
Read moreA Brief History of Inaugural Poems
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When Amanda Gorman took the stage on January 20, 2021, to read the inaugural poem, she became the youngest and only sixth person to ever do so, and only four presidents have included inaugural poems in their inauguration ceremonies.
Read moreOur "Nation's Recordkeeper"
No doubt, mostly everyone has heard of the Library of Congress, the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and largest library in the world with millions of items in its vast collection. But what about the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)? NARA is a special library and brands itself as “the nation’s recordkeeper.” While the LOC’s collection consists primarily of books, recordings, photographs, and manuscripts, NARA’s collection captures documents and materials that were created during the conduct of government business and activities.
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