Archive: February 2014 (3 Posts)

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map of the United States color coded to show where blacks live in the United States; most of the US is in yellow but many states are in blue as well as brown, black, and red were either part of the Union or Confederacy

Starting Points: Historical Statistics on African Americans

February 21, 2014

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

A few statistical sources on African Americans.

Posted in: African American History, Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor

Black and white drawing of three men playing hockey from the cover Spalding's How to Play Hockey

King of Winter Sports

February 12, 2014

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

For the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Games I wrote about an exhibit I created of ‘classic’ winter sport and game books (1800-1950) in the post He Shoots, He Scores: A Love of Winter Games. In this post I mentioned that the Library has been involved in digitization of its pre-1923 U.S. monograph imprint collection. Over the …

Posted in: Advertising, Sports

Silver stylized owl with radiant circles around its head, surrounded by a gold frame

Amendments 18 and 21

February 12, 2014

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Eventually Prohibition - and the violence surrounding it - wore out its welcome. By 1930 the anti-Prohibition forces had strengthened their hand in Congress and the need for tax revenues at the federal level during the Depression hastened Prohibition's demise.

Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History

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