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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Society of Woman Geographers Records, housed in the Manuscript Division, contain information on the now century-old organization, including the lives of the founders and early members who established a thriving community of independent women.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomed its fourth National Woman’s Party Research fellow this summer and announces the opening of the application period for the fifth year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In an 1861 letter to her mother, sixteen-year-old Louisa Russell recounted a Thanksgiving feast that battled against her "considerably tight" clothing.
Posted by: Josh Levy
An adorable kitten in a boot, found on the corporate stationery of a Boston-based shoe manufacturer, reveals the changing culture of American cities in the late nineteenth century.
Posted by: Julie Miller
Filipino politician Apolinario Mabini’s “Manifesto Regarding the American Occupation and the Philippine Insurrection,” 1902, provides insight into the shifting political landscape of the Philippines after the conclusion of the Philippine-American War and the subsequent annexation of the archipelago by the United States.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us in person for a “Made at the Library” film screening of “Outsider. Freud” (2025) and conversation with filmmaker Yair Qedar. Qedar takes the viewer on a journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud, set in four acts and combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts incorporating the Library’s Sigmund Freud Papers and other collections.
Posted in: Events, International History, Science and Technology
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In the latest book talk from the Made at the Library event series, learn about artist Mary Cassatt’s connections to the American women’s suffrage movement in a conversation with author Ruth Iskin about her research in the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
To gauge American sentiments at the start of the Revolutionary War, the British government ordered American letters opened, read, and copied at London’s post office. Today copies of those copies are at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Early America, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
William W. Coblentz was an Ohio farm boy turned physicist. His investigations into psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century created plenty of documentation. But does it prove anything?
Posted in: Science and Technology