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Cartoon of man dressed in blue coat standing with back to Rumford fireplace, pots on mantle above

Thomas Jefferson and the Rumford Fireplace

Posted by: Julie Miller

Made at the Library: Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy, with Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

Did Lucretia Garfield Really Say That? Sourcing the Dialogue in the Netflix Series Death by Lightning

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

Color card in cartoonish style with woman reclining on ledge and cityscape below, printed poem at bottom

Of Note: Happy New Year from Journalist Bess Furman

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

Cover of a Christmas card with busy people, a rushing car, and speeding streamlined train at the bottom foreground, silhouetted skyscrapers with a setting sun beyond in the background, and a passenger plane flying overhead.

Dreaming of a Slow Christmas

Posted by: Josh Levy

Black and white print showing beavers near trees and a river.

Of Note: George Washington and the Beaver Tail: An Unfinished Tale

Posted by: Julie Miller

A postcard with a black and white head and shoulders portrait photograph of Harriet Chalmers Adams, wearing a hat. The text of the postcard announces her upcoming travel to the Far East and subsequent availability for lectures in the U.S.

Founding a Community: The Society of Woman Geographers at 100

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

Monochrome image of woman standing at right pointing toward billboard encouraging women to vote against Woodrow Wilson for president

National Woman’s Party Research Fellowship: 2026 Application Period Opens

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

A group of women in colorful dresses, four standing and one sitting discuss fashion in 1862

“I Did Not See the Use of Being Uncomfortable on Thanksgiving Day”: Tight Clothes and Big Meals in 19th-Century America

Posted by: Michelle Krowl