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Posted by: Josh Levy
Letters by Albert Einstein in the Sigmund Freud Papers at the Library of Congress reveal his clandestine love affair with Margarita Konenkova.
Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This Thanksgiving take inspiration from Alice Stone Blackwell’s “Pleasure Book,” where the journalist and women’s rights advocate recorded daily moments of optimism and joy.
Posted in: Diaries, Digital Collections, Holidays, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Join us on November 30 for a “Live! at the Library” commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of home rule in Washington, D.C., with a panel discussion on the legacy of home rule moderated by Kojo Nnamdi and featuring journalist Tom Sherwood; The Drum and Spear Bookstore co-founder, Eyes on the Prize documentarian and civil rights activist Judy Richardson; and historians G. Derek Musgrove and Kyla Sommers. A performance by the D.C. Go-Go band Mambo Sauce will follow the panel discussion.
Posted in: African American History, Events, Journalism, Literature Culture & the Arts, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
An 1837 map of Marietta, Ohio, contained in the papers of archaeologist E. G. Squier, tells a rich story of Indigenous architecture, nationalist aspirations, and Midwestern pride.
Posted in: Early America, Native American History, Science and Technology, Uncategorized
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, a Library of Congress “Native American Arts” display highlights select Indigenous artists documented in Indian Arts and Crafts Board materials in the Manuscript Division’s Vincent Price Papers.
Posted in: Exhibits, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Discover some of the most haunting items in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Holidays
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomes its second National Woman’s Party research fellow this fall and announces the opening of the application period for the third year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
While the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records might not contain your grandfather’s Pinkerton’s employment history, the collection offers information about the Pinkertons who ran the family’s agency and some of the more interesting criminals they investigated.