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Posted by: Rachel McNellis
Reverend Josiah Poeton’s scrapbook reveals how the Young Men’s Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) served Allied soldiers in France during World War I.
Posted in: War and Society
Posted by: Julie Miller
In the first half of the eighteenth century, well before the American Revolution, British lawyer and colonial agent John Sharpe (ca. 1700-1756) represented members of the British sugar industry before Parliament. A small group of his papers is in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Posted in: Early America
Posted by: Josh Levy
In fall 1872, a virulent equine influenza spread rapidly from Ontario, Canada down through the urban centers of the American northeast, sickening nearly every horse it met. A young Alexander Graham Bell’s letters back home offer a glimpse into the surreal moment when the nation’s cities discovered how deeply they had come to depend on horsepower.
Posted in: Animals, Digital Collections, Science and Technology
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
On Thursday, May 14, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM in the Hispanic Reading Room, LJ-240, Lori Carlson-Hijuelos will be interviewed about her new memoir, A Writing Marriage (2026), reflecting on her life with the Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), whose personal papers are preserved in the Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Events, Hispanic and Latino History, International History