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Posted by: Josh Levy
Anna Freud knew the importance of her father's book and article drafts to history, but she couldn't bring herself to part with them. The manuscripts remained in her home for decades, until a visit by a Library of Congress staff member in 1975 helped persuade her to begin to let go.
Posted in: International History, Science and Technology
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Women’s activism in both the temperance and the women’s suffrage movements can be found in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Join the Manuscript Division for a discussion of 1920s America with Nathan Masters at noon, August 23, as he discusses his new book: Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tales of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal.
Posted by: Josh Levy
A valuable new resource guide for a rich collection of materials from British archives related to the history of the United States is now available online.
Posted in: International History, Library of Congress History, Researcher Resources
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In 1933, psychoanalyst Frieda Fromm-Reichmann fled Nazi Germany. Before landing in the United States, she passed through France. An item from the Manuscript Division’s collections tells this story.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
The Manuscript Division recently acquired more than twenty Barack Obama letters, postcards, notes, photographs, and campaign ephemera, most dating from the 1980s. The letters confirm historian Meg McAleer’s fascination with materials emanating from a person’s early professional life.
Posted in: African American History, Politics