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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's original manuscript copy of George Gershwin's iconic "Rhapsody in Blue," with handwritten notations, is now on line.
Posted in: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Manuscripts, Music, New Online
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's newest crowdsourcing campaign are the vast notebooks of Frederick Hockley, a 19th century British Spiritualist who believed he could communicate with the dead.
Posted in: By the People, Manuscripts, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The William Howard Taft papers are the largest of the Manuscript Division’s 23 presidential collections, comprising approximately 676,000 documents covering his personal life and public career. Among them lies the heartbreaking tale of the death of Maj. Archie Butt, his beloved friend and aide, in the sinking of the Titanic.
Posted in: Manuscripts, New Online, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Allen Neuharth Papers in the Library's Manuscript Division provide an inside look at a changing industry, the rise of the only national newspaper established after World War II and the thoughts, practices and endeavors of a media mogul who helped defined the age.
Posted in: Manuscripts, Newspapers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Haruo Shimizu survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and gave a harrowing narrative of that day to Bill Floyd, an American soldier stationed in post-war Japan. Floyd's family recently donated his papers, including the manuscript, to the Library.
Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The history behind one of Alexander Hamilton's farewell letters to his wife, Eliza, displays their deep devotion to one another. It feature prominently in "Hamilton," the hit musical and Disney+ filmed version.
Posted in: Alexander Hamilton, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
How would freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass have sounded while delivering one of his classic speeches? A speech on John Brown offers a few clues.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil War, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The letters of Julia Sand to President Chester A. Arthur have been digitized and are now online.
Posted in: Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
On May 1, 1855, Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, two well-known social reformers, used their high-profile wedding to protest marriage laws of the time.
Posted in: Manuscripts, Women's History