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Posted by: Ryan Reft
A new exhibit in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building featuring two dozen collections from the Manuscript Division, several of which were recently acquired, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Watergate, the definitive American political scandal of the twentieth century.
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis.
Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society
Posted by: Ryan Reft
A new exhibit at the Library of Congress looks at Frederick Law Olmsted’s experience as a social observer and public planner.
Posted in: Exhibits, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Ryan Reft
George Washington’s farm reports provide us precise details about the lives of the hundreds of workers, free and enslaved, on the president’s Mount Vernon estate, including the amount of time that the enslaved were sick or in “child bed”.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Politics
Posted by: Ryan Reft
"Comprised of more than 172,000 items, the AFL collection is a potential treasure trove, yet the work has only just begun. The field of labor history has much to gain by continuing to analyze these records through an intersectional lens," writes Mills Pennebaker, a fall 2021 Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced intern, who discusses her experience researching issues of race, gender, regionalism, and class in the recently digitized American Federation of Labor Records.
Posted in: African American History, Labor, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
“Something must be done. We are producing educated and refined representatives, what for? They are denied their ambitions simply because of color. So I say let us gracefully go home where we can sit in any room we choose," Elizabeth Sykes wrote to Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Her letter discussed by 2021 Archives History and Heritage Advanced Internship (AHHA) intern, Sarah Shepherd offers a window into Black Nationalism of the early-20th century and an example of the kind of issues and themes explored by participants of the Library of Congress AHHA program.
Posted in: African American History, Intern Spotlight
Posted by: Ryan Reft
When juxtaposed with her memoir, one discovers discordant, countervailing emotions regarding her adopted city in the correspondence of Washington Post editor Meg Greenfield that parallel the famous, sometimes dissident sound of the avant-garde New York band, The Velvet Underground.
Posted by: Ryan Reft
The year 2022 marks the bicentennial of the birth of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). With this in mind, historian Barbara Bair discusses the By the People crowdsourcing transcription project featuring the Subject File in the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers and the Library's upcoming plans to celebrate Olmsted and his contributions to American life.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Exploring the jurisprudence of John Paul Stevens during his first nine terms as a Supreme Court justice.
Posted in: Supreme Court