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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
Posted by: Julie Miller
The Library of Congress has just received a group of thirteen letters, mostly from Henry Clay to William Harris Crawford, six of which are unpublished. These document the work of the American commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, and the subsequent commercial treaty signed with Britain.
Posted in: Early America, International History, Law, Letters, Politics, War and Society
Posted by: Laura Kells
A look at an eye-catching vacation photo from the summer of 1887 contained in the F. Holland Day Papers.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Dawn Day Biehler as she discusses her recent book, Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts, Science and Technology