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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The recently acquired personal papers of award-winning poet and teacher Ai Ogawa (1947-2010) are newly processed and open to researchers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Asian American History, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Crystal Brandenburgh, the 2022 National Woman’s Party Research Fellow at the Library of Congress, discusses her research on the policy disagreements between post-1920 women’s organizations, including the National Woman’s Party and the League of Women Voters.
Posted in: Researcher Stories, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Archivist Elizabeth Livesey explores the history of one of the oldest Jewish women’s grassroots organizations in the United States, as well as that of her own family, in two collections related to the National Council of Jewish Women.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Join historian Ryan Reft and senior archives specialist Connie Cartledge at noon on Thursday, March 23, as they discuss the intersection of mid-century politics, anti-communism, and Manuscript Division collections with Matthew Dallek, author of the new book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.
Posted by: Ryan Reft
This March marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed indigent defendants the right to counsel, but as seen through the Anthony Lewis Papers and his influential book, Gideon’s Trumpet, the results have been mixed at best.
Posted in: Law
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
As we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, a large format poster, recently discovered during the processing of an important addition to the National Woman’s Party Records, provides a glimpse into British and American women’s suffrage alliances.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A Manuscript Division intern shares her experiences of finding African American voices in the Theodore Roosevelt Papers.
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Intern Spotlight
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Learn about twelve recently processed new collections and additions to twelve other existing collections. This post is the first of what will be a regular blog feature announcing recently available collections.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Diaries, Journalism, Labor, Letters, Politics, Science and Technology, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Recently acquired primary sources within the NAACP Records reveal the devotion and courage of Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers and his work to eliminate racial violence, desegregate higher education and services, and secure voting rights. His tragic murder led Evers’s wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to build a legacy of civil rights and social justice activism of her own.
Posted in: African American History, Intern Spotlight