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Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Rachel Gross, author of Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America, to learn more about the surprising military origins of your favorite outdoor gear.
Posted in: Events, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Manuscript Division staff speak with Kelsey Henry, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and former research fellow with the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM), about her research in the Manuscript Division.
Posted in: African American History, Researcher Stories, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
National Woman's Party Research Fellow Magdalene Zier reflects on her research into Goesaert v. Cleary, the Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Michigan’s 1945 ban on women working as bartenders, which was decided during a pivotal period for the feminist, labor, and civil rights movements.
Posted in: Labor, Law, Letters, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join historian Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recent book, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Elizabeth A. Novara.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
A 1937 tea party held at the home of the chief of naval operations, today’s official vice presidential residence, reveals a mansion that was once a showcase of women’s hidden political influence within the nation’s military elite.
Posted in: War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
In June 1910, a few days after President William Howard Taft signed legislation allowing the Arizona and New Mexico territories to move toward statehood, a strange telegram arrived in the White House, which reveals the story of a river that once buzzed with legend.
Posted by: Josh Levy
This is a guest post by Onur Ayaz, formerly a Junior Fellow in the Manuscript Division. When does entrepreneurship become innovative, and when does innovation become invention? Are activists, educators, scientists, and laborers also innovators? Are they entrepreneurs? In 1918 Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian who also collected manuscripts, ephemera, and other materials …
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Intern Spotlight, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us on October 23 as Manuscript Division historian Josh Levy and reference librarian Loretta Deaver interview Cheryl Krasnick Warsh about her new biography of pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey and her pioneering battle against the life-threatening prescription drug thalidomide.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
This post is coauthored by Morgan Black, librarian at the United States Naval Observatory, and Josh Levy, historian of science and technology at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. When Maria Mitchell spotted a telescopic comet from the roof of her Nantucket home in 1847, a historic feat that helped make her a national celebrity, …
Posted in: Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History