Saint Patrick and the Snakes!
St. Patrick is credited with banishing all snakes from Ireland, but did he?
Honoring African Americans: Historic Women Trailblazers and Advocacy Organizations
Maggie L. Walker, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Mary Church Terrell founded and led organizations with a focus on social activism through the development of personal relationships, mentoring, and collaborating to bring about social change, often with a goal of bringing more people into the middle class.
United Copper, Wall Street, and the Panic of 1907
There had been growing discomfort with the power of people like Morgan and with Wall Street in general, and the events of 1907 and the problems they spawned just added more fuel to the fire.
Discovering Science Collections Virtually at the Library of Congress, March 16
Join the Science Reference Section in discovering digitized collections from the Library of Congress.
Join Us for a Virtual Business Research Orientation on March 10
Interested in how to do business research at the Library of Congress? Come to our Virtual Business Research Orientation on March 10, from 1-2 pm!
Honoring African Americans: Cornerstones of Economic Development – African American Insurance Companies
Many early African American insurance companies focused on industrial insurance or burial insurance and employed people in the community to sell and administer insurance contracts. Explore our resources related to African American insurance industry, including founders like Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick and Charles Clinton (C.C.) Spaulding.
Honoring African Americans: Celebrating Life in Death – African American Funeral Homes
Black owned and operated funeral homes have a rich heritage and are as much cultural institutions as they are businesses. They were among the first family businesses established by African Americans after the abolition of slavery…
Catalyzing Chemists – African Americans in the Chemical Sciences
African American chemists Alice Ball, Norbert Rillieux, Marie Maynard Daly, and Percy Julius made significant contributions to chemistry and helped shape the world we know today.
Reflections Ten Years On
I am a little tardy with this anniversary post, but October 2020 marked my 10th anniversary as an official blogger for Inside Adams.
African Americans and the Gold Rush
Encouraged by positive reports of gold mining success in leading African American newspapers, including Frederick Douglass’ North Star and William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator, Jonas H. Townsend, Newport Henry, and other free Blacks left New York for the gold fields in 1849.