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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jeannette Rankin led the way for women being elected to Capitol Hill, setting into play a century of change.
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Congress, Jewish American History, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A top-secret, raised-relief model of Utah Beach helped the Allied leadership, including Eisenhower and Montgomery, plan for D-Day.
Posted in: Veterans History Project, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Photo and short bio of Walt Whitman, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Posted in: By the People, Civil War, Pic of the Week, Poetry, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A short essay about "North Mississippi Homeplace," Michael Ford's new book of photography and folklore about one of the poorest regions in America.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Clara Barton's letters reveal the tragedy of one death resulting from the Civil War's Battle of Fredericksburg.
Posted in: Civil War, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
“Crazy Rich Asians” was the book that started it all for Kevin Kwan, the Singapore-born, New York-dwelling visual consultant and novelist. The 2013 satire about fabulously wealthy Chinese ex-pat families living (and loving and gossiping and shopping) in Singapore became an international bestseller, spawning two sequels and a hit 2018 film directed by Jon M. …
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Fragments of "The Iliad" and from copies of the Bible provide clues to their original versions, as seen in the the Library's Jay I. Kislak Collection.
Posted in: Jay I. Kislak Collection, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Chronicling America, the Library's online searchable database of historic U.S. newspapers, now includes more than 15 million pages.
Posted in: News, Newspapers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
By the People, the Library’s crowdsourcing transcription project, is rallying readers to complete 500 pages from the “Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened” campaign before Memorial Day. These were gathered by journalist and chaplain William Oland Bourne as part of a left-handed penmanship competition for Union soldiers who had lost their right hand or …
Posted in: By the People, Civil War