Of Note: Not THAT Kind of Husbandry
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
A classroom exchange at The Taft School in May 1910 confirms that students misinterpreting their textbooks is nothing new.
Archive: September 2024 (5 Posts)
George Washington’s Uncle Writes Home: The Letterbook of Joseph Ball
Posted by: Julie Miller
Joseph Ball’s mid-eighteenth century letters, written from his home near London to his family in Virginia, helped maintain connections between Britain and the American colonies. They also show how the institution of slavery operated in the world where George Washington was born.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Letters
Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos Papers Newly Available in the Manuscript Division
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
This is a guest blog by Barbara Bair, historian of Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Manuscript Division. In 1990, author Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). He later received the Hispanic Heritage Award …
Posted in: Hispanic and Latino History, Literature Culture & the Arts
Made at the Library: “Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War,” with George C. Rable
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Join us on September 17, the anniversary of the 1862 battle of Antietam, as Manuscript Division historian Michelle Krowl and reference librarian Lara Szypszak interview historian George C. Rable about his new book Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War, which reevaluates the command relationship between General McClellan and President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War, Events, War and Society
George Washington and the “Spirit of Association”
Posted by: Julie Miller
Filed with the correspondence in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress are six printed copies of an agreement to boycott British goods that Washington, then a Virginia burgess representing Fairfax County, brought to his constituents to sign. The agreement, crafted by the colony’s House of Burgesses (the lower house of Virginia’s colonial …
Posted in: Early America, Politics