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A Pioneering Science Educator

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Today’s post was written by Denise Dempsey a Science Reference Librarian who has previously written about the women featured in the motion picture “Hidden Figures” and the post “A Family of Pharmacists”. Among the photographs in the Picture This blog post, Portraits of Nineteenth Century African American Women Activists Newly Available Online, is one of …

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An American in Orbit: The Story of John Glenn

Posted by: Angel Vu

This post was authored by Sean Bryant, Science Reference & Research Specialist in the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress. Fifty five years ago this week John Hershel Glenn Jr. rode an Atlas rocket into a cloudy February morning. In his Mercury space capsule Friendship 7, Glenn became the third person, …

Gulliver Cleveland and the Wall Street Brobdingnagians. Illustration shows Thomas F. Ryan, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Edward H. Harriman as sheikhs listening to a diminutive Grover Cleveland. From Puck, v. 58, no. 1508 (1906 January 24)

On Researching Capitalists, Financiers, and Builders of Empires

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

I have written several posts on industrialists and capitalists from America’s past – J.P. Morgan, Hetty Green, Andrew Carnegie, James Swan, and Jay Gould and James Fisk. But for those researching people who haven’t yet been featured, there are some great resources. One of the most accessible sources is the encyclopedias, available in most public, …