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Archive: February 2017 (20 Posts)

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Curator’s Picks: Surrogate First Ladies

Posted by: Erin Allen

(The following article is featured in the January/February 2017 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) Manuscript Division specialists Julie Miller, Barbara Bair and Michelle Krowl discuss some non-spousal first ladies. Martha Jefferson Randolph Because Thomas Jefferson was a widower when he became president, Dolley Madison, …

Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, LCM, Photos, Washington DC, Women's History

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

New Online: Sigmund Freud Collection

Posted by: Erin Allen

(The following is written by Margaret McAleer, senior archives specialist in the Manuscript Division.) Sigmund Freud went digital today with the release of an online edition of the Library of Congress’s Sigmund Freud Collection. Freud’s explorations into the unconscious and founding of psychoanalysis profoundly influenced modern cultural and intellectual history, securing his place in the …

Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, New Online