Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inauguration: Scenes from March 4, 1865
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Experience Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865, through selected scenes from the day.
Posted in: Civil War, War and Society
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Of Note: Hassayampers Unite!
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.
Memphis T. Garrison and the NAACP Christmas Seal Program
Posted by: Julie Miller
The Christmas seals produced by the NAACP were the brainchild of Memphis Tennessee Garrison. This story unfolds in the NAACP Records at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Holidays
Intern Spotlight: Uncovering African American Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Manuscript Division
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
New from the Manuscript Division: Two Recently Digitized Collections Offer Native American Content
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
During National Native American Heritage Month in November, the Manuscript Division released two new digital humanities sites containing content with Native voices. The Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers contain items related to Ojibwe culture and poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, and the C. Hart Merriam Papers document California Indian linguistics from various tribal nations.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Native American History
Marble Lost and Found: The Numidian Marble of the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
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,” …
Posted in: Library of Congress History
Thanksgiving at Howard University: “A Gala Day for All”
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
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.
Posted in: African American History, Diaries, Holidays
“I Felt So Bad that I Just Had to Write”: Children’s Post-Election Letters to Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
After Theodore Roosevelt lost the 1912 presidential election, children who had hoped he would win wrote to console him, and by extension themselves.
Posted in: Politics
National Woman’s Party Research Fellowship: 2025 Application Period Opens
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History