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Posted by: Julie Miller
The Christmas seals produced by the NAACP were the brainchild of Memphis Tennessee Garrison. This story unfolds in the NAACP Records at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Holidays
Posted by: Josh Levy
This is a guest post by Onur Ayaz, formerly a Junior Fellow in the Manuscript Division. When does entrepreneurship become innovative, and when does innovation become invention? Are activists, educators, scientists, and laborers also innovators? Are they entrepreneurs? In 1918 Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian who also collected manuscripts, ephemera, and other materials …
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Intern Spotlight, Science and Technology
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
During National Native American Heritage Month in November, the Manuscript Division released two new digital humanities sites containing content with Native voices. The Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers contain items related to Ojibwe culture and poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, and the C. Hart Merriam Papers document California Indian linguistics from various tribal nations.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Native American History
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
This is a guest post by Clinton Drake, a reference librarian in the History & Genealogy Section of the Researcher Engagement & General Collections Division of the Library of Congress. “In the form of your building, color bears much the same relation as it does to the human form; it distinguishes the living from the dead,” …
Posted in: Library of Congress History