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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
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has just received a group of thirteen letters, mostly from Henry Clay to William Harris Crawford, six of which are unpublished.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
Posted by: Rachel McNellis
While on board a passenger ship anchored in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, Confederate surgeon Dr. Edward S. Aldrich witnessed the Battle of Fort Sumter and encountered the USRC Harriet Lane. His personal account is detailed in a family letter in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Posted in: Civil War, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
In 1972, at the end of her life, British mystery novelist Agatha Christie wrote two letters to an American teenager. In them, she shares insight into her philosophy on both writing and crime (fiction).
Posted in: Letters, Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Julie Miller
A group of ships’ papers dispersed in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection collectively tell a story about the port of Baltimore around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Posted in: Early America
Posted by: Julie Miller
On Thursday, July 17, at noon, the Library will host historian John Bidwell for a "Made at the Library" event to celebrate the recent publication of his book, The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America's Founding Document. Dr. Bidwell will discuss his book and the process of conducting research using the Library's collections.
Posted in: Early America, Events