The U.S. Reports collection delves into historic Supreme Court cases which have ties to Pride month and the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Bailey highlights several from the twentieth century in this blog post.
For St. Patrick's Day and National Irish-American Heritage Month, Bailey looks into the collections to learn a bit more about how Irish-American culture manifested in the United States, immigration law that affected it, and Congressional recognition of the Irish Free State in the 1920s.
Former Digital Resources Division intern Kaycee Conover introduces us to Filipino revolutionary José Rizal, whose writings moved Congress during the consideration of the Philippine Bill in 1902.