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Posted by: Neely Tucker
One summer night in the White House in 1862, John Nicolay, Lincoln's secretary, wrote his future wife a whimsical letter about how "all bugdom" was swarming his office, attracted by the light of gas lamp.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, New Online, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Readers can help transcribe letters written to President Abraham Lincoln in the Library's crowdsourcing campaign.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, By the People
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A conservator at the Library believes she has identified John Wood, an almost forgotten government photographer, as the man who took an iconic image of the first Lincoln inauguration.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Photos, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Peggy Lundeen Johnson is the great-great-granddaughter of Samuel J. Gibson. He fought for the Union during the Civil War and was incarcerated in the Confederate military prison in Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864. While there, he kept a daily log of his experience. Johnson was unaware of the diary until she encountered it on the Library’s …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
An interview with author Louis Bayard, who will be speaking and signing books at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, National Book Festival, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Two hundred years after his birth, Walt Whitman remains a towering figure. The Library of Congress, with the world's largest collection of Whitman's writings, marks the bicentennial with a flurry of events.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Washington DC
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Researcher and Reference Services Division. Abraham Lincoln was fond of poetry: He wrote poems, read them, received them and was the subject of many. So states “Abraham Lincoln and Poetry,” a unique example of the numerous guides the Library makes …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Poetry
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division, and Victoria Van Hyning, a senior innovation specialist in the division. This post coincides with National Handwriting Day. “That’s so beautiful, but what does it say?” This is what we often hear from visitors to the Library of Congress when they …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Collections, Events, Literacy, Manuscripts, Social Media
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Invited to give a “few appropriate remarks” to dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered — over the course of about two minutes — what has become one of the most widely recognized speeches in …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Collections, Events, Manuscripts, Social Media