“The Crown” At the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Insights from the Library's holdings into Season 3 of "The Crown."
Posted in: Manuscripts
Category: Manuscripts
How “The Postman Always Rings Twice” Got Its “Sort of Crazy” Name
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The backstory of how "The Postman Rings Twice," one of the most famous titles in 20th century American literature, got its curious title.
Posted in: Books, Crime and Punishment, LCM, Manuscripts
Freud’s Last Days in Vienna as Nazis Approached
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The personal papers of Sigmund Freud at the Library of Congress have been digitized and are available online Included on the Library’s website for streaming are 11 home movies of Freud made between 1928 and 1939. Margaret McAleer, a historical specialist of modern America in the Library’s Manuscript Division, oversees the Library’s more than 100 collections …
Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, World War II
Civil War General McClellan: Calligrams Hiding in Plain Sight
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Manuscript Division, who always writes so well about her specialty, the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Researchers discover all kinds of materials in the George Brinton McClellan Papers that suit their varied research interests, and this collection is now available online through the …
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Crowdsourcing Challenge!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
By the People, the Library’s crowdsourcing transcription project, is calling on volunteers to complete 1,000 pages from the “Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote” campaign before Monday, August 19th.
Posted in: By the People, Manuscripts, Women's History
Now Online! The Love Letters of James and Lucretia Garfield
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The letters, diaries, speeches and other personal papers of President James A. Garfield are now online at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents
New! Baseball’s Jim Bouton and “Ball Four” at the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The papers of Jim Bouton, the former Major League pitcher whose 1970 memoir, "Ball Four," became one of the most celebrated American books of the 20th Century, are now at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Baseball, Books, Manuscripts
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, Women's History
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