The Will of Claudia Izard: An Uneasy Antebellum Testament
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The will of Claudia Smith Izard, written in 1854, is an uneasy mixture of women's rights and slave-owning sentiments.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts
Category: Civil War
Inquiring Minds: Ryan Semmes
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Ryan Semmes, an associate professor at Mississippi State University and archivist at the university's Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, is researching Grant's presidential policies at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Pic of the Week: Walt Whitman Birthday Edition
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
Clara Barton: A Memorial Day Story
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
Crowdsourcing Invitation: Help Tell a Civil War Soldier’s Story
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
‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later
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
Howard University, Library, Team Up for New Internship Program
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Keshad "Ife" Adeniyi, an intern in the Library's Manuscript Division through the Archives, is a Howard University Ph.D. candidate who is researching the history of escaped slaves known as "contrabands."
Inquiring Minds: Peter Carlson Brings History to Life
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Peter Carlson, a journalist and author of three books of American history -- much of it about outsized characters and their adventures -- bases his writing on reasearch done at the Library of Congress. He also writes a column for American History magazine, "American Schemers," which also draws heavily on Library research.
Posted in: Civil War, History, Newspapers, Researcher Stories
Pic of the Week: Harriet Tubman, Seen as Never Before
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In a March 25 ceremony, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and National Museum of African American History and Culture Director Lonnie Bunch unveiled the photo album of abolionist Emily Howland, featuring a previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman. The portrait, taken around 1868, captures Tubman in her mid 40s, years younger than most surviving photographs that show her late in life
Posted in: Civil Rights, Civil War, Photos, Pic of the Week