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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
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
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Bestselling author Erik Larson starts research for many of his books at the Library of Congress. "There's always something of incredible value," he says in this interview.
Posted in: Manuscripts, Newspapers, Researcher Stories
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
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division. For both George Washington and King George III of England, the summer of 1788 began a year shaped by illness and worry. Even though the sources of their troubles differed, each George had reason to look anxiously across the Atlantic. …
Posted in: Manuscripts, Today in History, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Love letters dot the Library of Congress's collections — centuries of devotion, passion, longing, regret and heartbreak put down on paper.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents, Veterans History Project, World War II
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