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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
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
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
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The LIbrary's Rare Persian Manuscript Collection is now online after a four-year digitization project, anchored by three gorgeous manuscript copies of The Shahnamah, or the Persian Book of Kings, a 1,000-year-old epic that is the foundation for the modern language.
Posted in: Events, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Library's Manuscript Division, reveals how she resolved a literary mystery in the online diaries of Clara Barton.
Posted in: History, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Roberto Valturio, an Italian engineer, included an illustration of a dragon war machine in his "De re militari," ("On military matters"), an influential military manual in the 15th Century.
Posted in: History, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A never-seen-before collection of letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz offers new insight into the couple's art, marriage and ambitions during an eighteen-year span in which they were primary shapers of American Modernism. The letters were sent, independently of one another, to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, with whom O'Keeffe seemed especially close. The Library acquired them from a private collection. This is the first time they have been available to the public.
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Photos, Women's History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For years now, Saundra Rose Maley has encouraged her English composition students at Montgomery College in Montgomery County, Maryland, to think of themselves as detectives. The setting for their investigations: the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Their task: to scout out primary sources for novel or surprising details about historical figures and write …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Women's History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For going on a decade now, theater historian Ben West has been making regular trips from his home in New York City to the Library of Congress. His mission? To cull through unpublished manuscripts, personal papers of Broadway authors, copyright drama submissions and more to tell the story of the American musical. Last September, West’s …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Music, Researcher Stories