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George Washington on a white horse leads officers down a New York street as crowds cheer and wave American flags during the British Evacuation of 1783.

25 for 25, “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World” by Maya Jasanoff

Posted by: Lillian Williams

This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Close to 60,000 loyalists, about one in forty of the American population, left the newly formed country …

Dr. John Hope Franklin

25 for 25, “Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin”

Posted by: Lillian Williams

This post is part of the Kluge Center’s 25 for 25, in honor of the Kluge Center’s 25th anniversary, celebrating 25 books that were written thanks to the Kluge Center’s support. Read the introductory post to the series here. Historian, civil rights activist, and public intellectual John Hope Franklin (1915 – 2009) transformed the field …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Kluge Center Welcomes Michael Auslin

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The Kluge Center is very pleased to welcome Michael Auslin into residence as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. A historian by training, Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and previously was an associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning Negotiating with …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Chair in Technology and Society Ainissa Ramirez on Why Everyone Deserves a Chance to Find Science Fascinating

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is a guest post by Kluge Center Chair in Technology and Society Ainissa Ramirez. Ramirez is an award-winning scientist and science communicator, who is dedicated to making science engaging and meaningful to the general public. A graduate of Brown University, she received her doctorate in materials science from Stanford University. She began her career …

Weather Control, Vichy France, and Early America: A Summer of Research as a Kluge Center Intern

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Rena Gabber was a Kluge Center intern, where she worked with PhD candidates Adelaide Mandeville of Harvard University and Dan Baker of Cardiff University, as well as Kluge Center Director Kevin Butterfield. Gabber is a senior at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service in International Politics. …

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Watch Now: The President Richard Nixon Impeachment Inquiry, 50 Years Later

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

On May 4, 2024, the John W. Kluge Center hosted the lawyers, researchers, and other staff who, in 1974, considered the question of whether sufficient evidence existed to impeach President Richard Nixon. They gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of that momentous event. Many were at the beginning of their careers. They took on the …

Scholars at the Library Reflect on the Historical and Personal Significance of the Huexotzinco Codex (1531)

Posted by: Dan Turello

On October 3 and 4, 2022, in a conference room on the 6th floor of the Library of Congress’ Madison Building, a group of scholars from Mexico and the United States poured over the facsimile pictures of the Huexotzinco Codex, which dates back to 1531 and is held in the Library’s Manuscript Division. The scholars …

Reading Vogue, Then and Now

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is a guest post by Samira Spatzek, a Kluge Fellow and a postdoctoral researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Free University of Berlin, Germany. When Princeton socialite and businessman Arthur B. Turnure ventured to publish a New York social gazette at the …

Rediscovering Murasaki Ayami: Vogue’s First Asian Author

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Bela Kellogg is a 2023 Kluge summer intern, where she worked with editor Andrew Breiner and scholar in residence Samira Spatzek. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in English and history of art from the University of Michigan. In addition to being a member of the La Jolla Historical Society’s Historic Preservation Committee, Bela is …