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Posted by: Malea Walker
65 years ago, Ayn Rand published her novel Atlas Shrugged. From novels to newspapers, pulp fiction to periodicals, read more about how the popular and controversial author made her voice heard.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Pulp Fiction, Women's History
Posted by: Malea Walker
The following is a guest post from Meg Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room, currently on detail in the Serial and Government Publications Division. “Margaret Jessie Chung has Aspirations,” the Los Angeles Herald headline read on October 10, 1905. Margaret was a 16-year-old, first-generation Chinese American who was teaching English in the …
Posted in: Asian American History, Biography, Digitized Newspapers, LGBTQ+, Newspapers, Women's History