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Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
In November 1913, freshman Jean Snowden remained on campus at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she recorded the exciting events of the Thanksgiving holiday celebrations in her diary.
Posted in: African American History, Diaries, Holidays
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
After Theodore Roosevelt lost the 1912 presidential election, children who had hoped he would win wrote to console him, and by extension themselves.
Posted in: Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomed its third National Woman’s Party Research fellow this summer and announces the opening of the application period for the fourth year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
A glimpse into the life of newspaper owner and women’s rights activist Idah S. Pratt Foster and the unusual way in which she received dozens of marriage proposals.
Posted in: Journalism, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In the latest book talk from the Made at the library event series, join author Allison S. Finkelstein as she discusses her research for Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.
Posted in: Events, War and Society, Women's & Gender History