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Posted by: Wendi Maloney
A film researcher at the Library of Congress has stumbled across the first motion picture to be copyrighted.
Posted in: Film, Library Work and Employees, National Film Registry, News, Performing Arts, Preservation, Rare Book and Special Collections, Researcher Stories, Technology
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Julie Centofanti, a biology student at Youngstown State University, started a club at her university in 2020 to transcribe historical documents included in the Library’s By the People project. A longer version of this interview appears on the Signal blog. How did you find out about By the People? I’m a member of the Youngstown …
Posted in: By the People, Library Work and Employees, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Lesley Anderson is a 2021–22 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator at the Library. Here, she answers a Q&A about her research time.
Posted in: Education, Library Work and Employees, Researcher Stories, Science
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink co-wrote "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress," published this month. They researched the book, a biography of the first woman of color in the U.S. Congress, at the Library.
Posted in: Asian American, Asian American History, Congress, Researcher Stories, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Civil War historian Elizabeth Leonard has written a number of books about the role of women on the battlefield and the social and political reverberations of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. She's researched those books, including her soon-to-be-published title, “Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life,” in the Library’s Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Books, Civil War, Researcher Stories, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This researcher Q&A, part of an occasional series, catches up with Melissa Koch, who uses the Library's collection to write nonfiction books for children and young adults. As of late, she's been focused on suffragist leader Lucy Stone.
Posted in: Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
In this segment of a regular feature on authors who use the Library's collections, we interview Walter Stahr, a lawyer turned historian. His latest biography, published in 2022, is "Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival," a look at the influential treasury secretary and later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the mid 19th century.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham teaches multicultural women’s and gender studies at Texas Woman’s University and writes about race and women’s labor history. She is writing a book about Nannie Helen Burroughs -- who founded the National Association of Wage Earners, a little-known but important Black women’s labor organization -- in the Library’s collection of Burrough's papers.
Posted in: African American History, Researcher Stories, Washington DC, Women's History