You come away from "Documenting America" with the feeling that it's not so much a show as a live experience.

Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA)

But "Documenting America, 1935-1943," the engrossing show the Library of Congress has organized at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, is more comprehensive than most.

The lineup of dignitaries who spoke at the opening of "Documenting Life Styles" suggests that this is not just a show of smart young esthetes but also a junior peace initiative.

Kiran Joshi, Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Beverly Drew.

David Garrick, Shaped Cedars and Cedar Shaping: A Guidebook to Identifying, Documenting, Appreciating and Learning from Culturally Modified Trees.

The photographs in "Documenting America," edited by two curators at the Library of Congress, Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan, depict, above all, the dignity unearthed by adversity.

In 2009 he co-founded the non-profit collective "Facing Change: Documenting America", (facingchange.org) with a group of social minded photographers and writers to document the issues facing the United States during a time of economic uncertainty.

Blue Ear (blueear.com), one of the more literate discussion forums on the Web, has produced a work with help from New York University's journalism department titled "09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy."

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He is a contributing photographer to Newsweek and The New York Times, editor and photographer at BagNews, member of Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA), and represented by the Sasha Wolf gallery.

JAY ROSEN, chairman of the journalism department at New York University, has helped publish "09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy," a compendium of eyewitness accounts and other reactions to the Sept. 11 attacks.

These are the documents the government says must not be made public.

She left not a single document in her own hand.

According to court documents, the mother had her first baby in 1998.

Several other top church officials were also involved, the documents say.

First, only one document at a time can be open.

The students must keep the document with them at all times.

But the report is much more than a political document.

I asked him if he could see documents in my back.

Both men say the documents may be the key to the case.

These are the first known set of human rights documents in the world.

We have been given, for example, documents from the year before.

I think we have put together a good document today.

She spent the next few hours going over those documents.

The court could actually look at the documents in order to make a decision.

And now get down to the end of the document.

I do not have a great deal to learn from such policy documents.

I tried to remember what else the documents had said.

The will was on top, as were some other documents.

The first thing I'm going to want from you is documents.

On the top of the documents was a color photograph.

When one document is coming in, all others are held up.

And I will have to probably turn over some documents.

Once again, he did not tell them everything, the documents state.

The report was not among the documents made public today.

Let me get the document up here, and then I can answer the questions.

I wanted to document something that was very important to me.

But I also believe that we have to document the art.

So much of his public life was documented on film.

The story of death has been well documented these past weeks.

I think it would have been better to try to document some things.

But he said I cannot document that and can you help out.

Similar results have been documented for the country as a whole.

And what they have documented is the up side of life.

The report was based on 400 cases documented since 2009.

The name can be documented to have been in use since 1386.

The idea, or rather the name, is first documented around 1560.

In the period between 655 and 750 they are not documented at all.

The years following her husband's death are not well documented.

The group's leaders said they knew of about 200 cases, but had yet to document them all.

Yet the evidence of such changes in the period 1914-18 are clear enough and have been well documented.

But it also documents a special moment in her career.

But it was not documented by public health officials until 1996.

The data do not document how parents spend their time at home.

"And I thought there should be a place to document them."

The entire process has been documented and is available here.

First documented in 1301, it now has a population of about 1,200.

There have been another 21 cases documented up until 1978.

A church has been documented on this site since 1254.

Nothing documented that they were different from any other man.

The last thing I want to do is to document on paper the loss of another year.