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.
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,” …
As the 2024 Summer Olympics kicks off this month, we take a look at the intersection of three remarkable American lives at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.
