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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Since 2018, By the People virtual volunteers have completed transcriptions of more than 143,000 pages of documents from the Manuscript Division’s women’s suffrage collections, enhancing search and accessibility. Public help is still needed to finalize thousands of transcriptions awaiting review.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Laura Kells
In a class project for a course on Imperial Russian history at Virginia Tech, students learned about the Manuscript Division's holdings of explorer and lecturer George Kennan's personal papers and examined newspaper accounts of his lectures using the Library's Chronicling America website.
Posted in: Digital Collections, International History, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis.
Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Join the Manuscript Division for a special night of Live! at the Library on Thursday, May 19, from 5 pm to 8 pm in the Thomas Jefferson Building in honor of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.
Posted in: Civil War, Events, War and Society
Posted by: Laura Kells
A look at the challenges processing archivists face and the types of decisions they make when organizing unsorted letters
Posted in: Behind the Scenes
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A new crowdsourcing transcription campaign features the Manuscript Division’s Hannah Arendt Papers.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
Philip Schuyler's letters about yellow fever in the Alexander Hamilton Papers reveal a complicated and many-sided character responding to a dangerous and frightening moment in American history.
Posted in: Early America, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Ryan Reft
A new exhibit at the Library of Congress looks at Frederick Law Olmsted’s experience as a social observer and public planner.
Posted in: Exhibits, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Join us on May 4 for a conversation with authors Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink about their new biography of Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink.
Posted in: Events, Politics, Women's & Gender History