This is a guest post from Lauren Algee, LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist. Just four months after the Library partnered with the public to transcribe the papers of baseball icon Branch Rickey, volunteers have transcribed all 1,926 pages of Rickey’s scouting reports, making them available for digital research just in time for Major League Baseball’s …
Suffrage songs were a significant part of the movement for the 19th Amendment, with novelty pieces such as "She's Good Enough to Have Your Baby and She's Good Enough to Vote with You" lending a sense of humor to the campaign.
The Veterans History Project hosts a special reunion of World War II veteran Code Girls, March 22, 2019. Codebreakers Nancy Tipton and Katherine Fleming chat with Liza Mundy, who wrote of their efforts in "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II."
These audio documentaries in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress document the genius, and the impact, of some of most signficant recordings in American history.
A never-seen-before collection of letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz offers new insight into the couple's art, marriage and ambitions during an eighteen-year span in which they were primary shapers of American Modernism. The letters were sent, independently of one another, to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, with whom O'Keeffe seemed especially close. The Library acquired them from a private collection. This is the first time they have been available to the public.