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Posted by: Malea Walker
Staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions will hold a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will make brief presentations on current research, and discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy.
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Malea Walker
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we are highlighting some of the many Asian American and Pacific Islander comic book creators, writers, and characters that can be found in the Library of Congress’ vast comic book collections.
Posted in: Asian American History, Comic Books, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The following is a guest post by Donnie Summerlin, a Digital Projects Archivist at the University of Georgia Libraries in Athens, GA, and by Kerry Huller, a Digital Conversion Specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress. The University of Georgia is the National Digital Newspaper Program awardee for the state of Georgia.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Newspapers
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
New Hampshire content is new in Chronicling America! Read our guest post by Robin Butterhof, a Digital Conversion Specialist in SER, and Toben Traver from Dartmouth Libraries (NH) who share about how the NH newspapers were selected, what content they contain, and some tips on how to search in them.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Interviews, Newspapers
Posted by: Malea Walker
Frank Herbert’s Dune Chronicles series is known as the first major world building science fiction saga. Published in 1965, Dune’s influence is clear in many science fiction novels and movies produced since then. Some of the most obvious examples of Dune’s influence can be found in the stories of large, sand-dwelling creatures of nightmares that …
Posted in: Comic Books
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
“First, no woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” – Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American Astronomer Meteor showers, comets, eclipses, and other celestial events have captured human interest and imagination for thousands of years. Astronomical phenomena have long been speculated over in the press, and …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Science, Women's History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Read about the history and traditions of Leap Day in the pages of Chronicling America, our historic collection of digitized newspapers.
Posted in: Newspapers
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) dedicated her whole life to advocating for civil rights, especially the education of youth. You can find her work making headlines in Chronicling America newspapers, as well as her friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and other high profile people of the day. Even some comic books featured her biography.
Posted in: African American History, Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Heather Thomas
On the afternoon of February 28, 1844, President John Tyler and roughly 400 guests were enjoying a cruise down the Potomac River on the new US Navy warship USS Princeton, when the mammoth, 13-ton naval gun on board, known as the “Peacemaker,” exploded. The disaster came close to costing the president his life, but instead it led to his marriage.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, U.S. Presidents