- Just as other areas of the government are being hit by the enforced spending cuts called sequestration, the Library of Congress is also suffering. The New York Times (3-May-2013) reports that it is falling behind in processing the 2,000 some copyrights that are submitted each day, and its digitization budget for this year is halved. Read the full article to appreciate the mission of the Library of Congress and the budgetary impact that could take years to repair.
Sequestration Hits Library of Congress
One of the most stubborn myths of American history is the idea that the frontier promoted equality of material condition. This national folk legend is, unhappily, ver much mistaken. With some exceptions, landed wealth was always highly concentrated throughout the southern highlands, as it would be in the lower Mississippi Valley, Texas and the far southwest. Inequality was greater in the backcountry and the southern highlands than in any other rural region of the United States.
Albion′s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989)