Why Celebrate New Year’s?
Posted by: Josh Levy
Read about anthropologist Margaret Mead's thoughts on annual observances of the New Year's holiday.
Posted in: Holidays
Archive: December 2022 (5 Posts)
Of Note: A Dessert Straight Out of History
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
The author recounts her culinary adventure attempting to recreate an original 1890s recipe for gingerbread found in the Rodgers Family Papers.
George Washington, “The Greatest Man in the World”?
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Did King George III of Great Britain really say that George Washington was “the greatest man in the world?” And if he did, who did he say it to?
Posted in: Early America, Politics
Of Note: Lincoln Reelected. Simple Message, Complex Messaging System
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In 1864, Anson Burlingame, an American diplomat in China, received a telegram from his counterpart in Russia with a simple message: Abraham Lincoln had been reelected president. Yet there was a complexity behind the simplicity.
Posted in: Civil War, Of Note, Politics, War and Society
Recently Processed Ann Cottrell Free Papers Expand Coverage of Women Journalists in the Manuscript Division
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division recently processed the papers of journalist, author, environmentalist, and animal rights advocate Ann Cottrell Free, who early in her career covered World War II-era Washington and post-war China.
Posted in: Journalism, Women's & Gender History