Archive: November 2022 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Michelle Krowl; (Year) 2022; (Month) November

Made at the Library: Benjamin Franklin Butler, Reevaluating the Man Behind the Caricatures

November 22, 2022

Join us on December 5 for a conversation with historian Elizabeth D. Leonard about her recent biography of the controversial politician and Civil War general Benjamin F. Butler, whose “noisy, fearless life” defied the caricatures history attached to him.

Posted in: Civil War

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

If You Can’t Say Something Nice…: James and Lucretia Garfield on Abraham and Mary Lincoln

November 3, 2022

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

How did James A. Garfield's wife respond when he channeled his inner "mean girl" after observing Abraham and Mary Lincoln for the first time?

Posted in: Digital Collections, Letters, Politics

Refined by: (Author) Michelle Krowl; (Year) 2022; (Month) November