This is a guest post by Clinton Drake, a reference librarian in the History & Genealogy Section of the Researcher Engagement & General Collections Division of the Library of Congress. “In the form of your building, color bears much the same relation as it does to the human form; it distinguishes the living from the dead,” …
In November 1913, freshman Jean Snowden remained on campus at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she recorded the exciting events of the Thanksgiving holiday celebrations in her diary.
The Manuscript Division welcomed its third National Woman’s Party Research fellow this summer and announces the opening of the application period for the fourth year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
A glimpse into the life of newspaper owner and women’s rights activist Idah S. Pratt Foster and the unusual way in which she received dozens of marriage proposals.
In the latest book talk from the Made at the library event series, join author Allison S. Finkelstein as she discusses her research for Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.
In anticipation of National Cat Day on October 29, this post highlights some feline-related imagery and expressions of friendship found in the Manuscript Division’s Clara Barton Papers.
The photographs in the Library of Congress Archives provide a look into the Library throughout the twentieth century. They document visits from authors, politicians, and celebrities as well as Library staff and their work.