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Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: African American History, Researcher Stories, Science and Technology
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
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions for a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy and its afterlives in more recent clashes over representations of race and sexuality in comics and graphic novels.
Posted in: African American History, Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us on May 7, 2024, to celebrate the Library’s NAACP collection with a presentation by Dr. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice.
Posted in: African American History, Events
Posted by: Josh Levy
A new interactive art project and web interface, At the Table with: Mary Church Terrell, enables users to deepen and enrich their understanding of an influential civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist. The project treats the Mary Church Terrell Papers not as a static collection of documents, but a vibrant and dynamic repository.
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections
Posted by: Josh Levy
The Manuscript Division recently acquired more than twenty Barack Obama letters, postcards, notes, photographs, and campaign ephemera, most dating from the 1980s. The letters confirm historian Meg McAleer’s fascination with materials emanating from a person’s early professional life.
Posted in: African American History, Politics
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
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