The Hospital de Jesús series in the Manuscript Division’s Spanish Foreign Copying Program Records hides a wealth of sources in plain sight due to its misleading title. Instead of medical documentation, the series consists of twenty-nine volumes on the Marquisate of the Valley of Oaxaca, the title and estates granted to the conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1529, after the fall of Tenochtitlán.
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.
After nearly a decade of planning, a new exhibition, “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution,” opened at the Library of Congress on March 28, 2025. The exhibit features the papers of George Washington from the Manuscript Division and the papers of Britain’s King George III from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.
Newly acquired letters in the Manuscript Division shed light on social reformer Frances Wright and her relationship with the Marquis de Lafayette, while other Library resources provide researchers with more details into their life and times.
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.
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.
Benajah Jay Antrim’s journals and sketchbooks document an American artist’s journey across Mexico in 1849. As of January 29, 2025, you can volunteer to transcribe them as part of the “By the People” crowdsourcing project from the Library of Congress.
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.
