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Posted by: Josh Levy
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. The Manuscript Division recently joined an event with veterans and Gold Star families that became more about listening than telling, and offered powerful insights about national healing and the power of conversation in a shared space.
Posted in: Events, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
In summer 1921 William J. Wilgus, the brilliant engineer who had once transformed New York’s Grand Central Terminal, embarked on a desperate crusade for the salvation of his profession.
Posted in: Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Walt Whitman’s birthday month of May marks the addition of a new Manuscript Division collection in the By the People Walt Whitman Campaign.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join historians Meg McAleer and Josh Levy at noon (EDT) on Thursday, May 11, as they discuss founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s narrow escape from Nazi-controlled Vienna with Andrew Nagorski, author of the new book Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Events, International History, Science and Technology, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Archivists describe the initial steps taken to adding another million items to the largest collection held by the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, the records of the NAACP.
Posted in: African American History, Behind the Scenes, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
Manuscript collections often include scrapbooks, which tell unique stories but can be challenging to preserve. With Edwin Swillinger’s scrapbook, archivist Katherine Madison chose to disassemble it in order to provide the best care for the many photographs and other documents depicting Swillinger’s military service and life in post-World War II Japan.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, International History, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Recently acquired primary sources within the NAACP Records reveal the devotion and courage of Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers and his work to eliminate racial violence, desegregate higher education and services, and secure voting rights. His tragic murder led Evers’s wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to build a legacy of civil rights and social justice activism of her own.
Posted in: African American History, Intern Spotlight
Posted by: Josh Levy
On September 25, 1910, in Aotearoa New Zealand, a stunning Maori kite caught Alexander Graham Bell's eye. His journals show Bell's brief encounter with an indigenous scientific tradition and reveal his own obsession with transporting human beings through the air in enormous tetrahedral kites.
Posted in: Aviation, International History, Of Note, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Read about anthropologist Margaret Mead's thoughts on annual observances of the New Year's holiday.
Posted in: Holidays