Join historian Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recent book, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Elizabeth A. Novara.
A 1937 tea party held at the home of the chief of naval operations, today’s official vice presidential residence, reveals a mansion that was once a showcase of women’s hidden political influence within the nation’s military elite.
In June 1910, a few days after President William Howard Taft signed legislation allowing the Arizona and New Mexico territories to move toward statehood, a strange telegram arrived in the White House, which reveals the story of a river that once buzzed with legend.