Julia Sand: The Letters to President Arthur, Now Digital
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
Category: Manuscripts
Stone/Blackwell Marriage: To Love And Honor, But Not “Obey”
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
The Evangelical and the Journalist: Billy Sunday & A.B. MacDonald
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The newly digitized papers of A. B. MacDonald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in the early decades of the 20th century, offer a front-row seat to the sermons of Billy Sunday, one of the most electrifying preachers of the day.
Posted in: Manuscripts
Bugs in the White House? In Lincoln’s Time, They Swarmed
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
American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The recently digitized records of the AFL in the Library's Manuscript Division reveals the complexities of the organization as it struggled with race and ethnicity, often in deeply problematic ways.
Posted in: Manuscripts
Inventing the Modern World
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress houses a multitude of papers, blueprints, recordings, drawings, images and artifacts that document the dazzling era of American invention, from the 1850s to the 1910s.
Posted in: Education, Manuscripts, Science, Technology
“The Crown” At the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Insights from the Library's holdings into Season 3 of "The Crown."
Posted in: 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