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Posted by: Josh Levy
Sometime in the mid-1930s, an aeronautical engineer sent out a particularly un-Christmassy looking Christmas card, one that featured a sleek aircraft soaring above a speeding train and automobile, with an art deco cityscape in the background.
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: 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: 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: 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
Posted by: Josh Levy
In 1982, former United States Marine Corps historian H. C. L. Merillat published a history of the Guadalcanal Campaign based largely on his wartime diaries, but he left out entries that showed him struggling with his role in the military and in the war. Unpublished excerpts reveal Merillat’s thoughts and insecurities during the campaign and reveal some of the burdens of recording history as it happened.
Posted in: Journalism, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Supplementary items from the Manuscript Division’s Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection are newly available for transcription through the Library of Congress By the People program.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
Staff Favorites is a new interview-based series in which staff members share favorite items from Manuscript Division collections. This guest post is by Manuscript Division cataloging librarian Joy Orillo-Dotson.
Posted in: International History, Staff Favorites, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Guest author Janet Lindenmuth, Reference Librarian at Delaware Law School, uncovers the story of labor and suffrage activist Ruza Wenclawska in Manuscript Division collections.
Posted in: Politics, Researcher Stories, Women's & Gender History