Halloween Highlights
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Discover some of the most haunting items in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Holidays
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National Woman’s Party Research Fellowship: New Fellow Announced and 2024 Application Period Opens
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
“Nothing that you do…can fail to interest me”: Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale Exchange Ideas on Women in Medicine
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Letters exchanged between two great women of medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale, demonstrate differing perspectives on women’s roles in the medical profession in the nineteenth century.
Posted in: International History, Letters, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Of Note: Reducing the Spread
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot visited Iran in 1949 and returned to the U.S. with a striking public health poster warning against the spread of the infectious eye disease, trachoma.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Temperance and Suffrage Movement Collections Connections
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Women’s activism in both the temperance and the women’s suffrage movements can be found in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Of Note: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Carte d’Identité
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In 1933, psychoanalyst Frieda Fromm-Reichmann fled Nazi Germany. Before landing in the United States, she passed through France. An item from the Manuscript Division’s collections tells this story.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, War and Society
The Centennial of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Origins and Early Debates
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
While much of the history of the Equal Rights Amendment is often focused on the 1970s, the discourse during the first few decades after the amendment’s introduction showcased the differing viewpoints held by labor feminists, African American women, and various women’s organizations at that time.
Posted in: African American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Story-Teller Poet: The Ai Ogawa Papers are Newly Available in the Manuscript Division
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The recently acquired personal papers of award-winning poet and teacher Ai Ogawa (1947-2010) are newly processed and open to researchers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Asian American History, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History, Women's & Gender History
Feminist Rivals: The National Woman’s Party and the League of Women Voters in Post-Suffrage Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Crystal Brandenburgh, the 2022 National Woman’s Party Research Fellow at the Library of Congress, discusses her research on the policy disagreements between post-1920 women’s organizations, including the National Woman’s Party and the League of Women Voters.
Posted in: Researcher Stories, Women's & Gender History