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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
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A Manuscript Division intern shares her experiences of finding African American voices in the Theodore Roosevelt Papers.
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Intern Spotlight
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Learn about twelve recently processed new collections and additions to twelve other existing collections. This post is the first of what will be a regular blog feature announcing recently available collections.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Diaries, Journalism, Labor, Letters, Politics, Science and Technology, 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: Elizabeth Novara
Kaila Brugger, a 2022 Archives History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA) intern, explores diaries that speak to her from within the Manuscript Division's holdings.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Diaries, Intern Spotlight, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This guest post is by Adrienne Cannon, historian of African American history and culture in the Manuscript Division. On September 22, 2022, the Manuscript Division partnered with the Exhibits Office and Mosaic Theater to present Live! at the Library: Reflections from the Past, Present and Future with Mosaic Theater. A recording of the event is …
Posted in: African American History, Events
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Forty years ago, Patricia Roberts Harris went down in defeat to Marion Barry in the 1982 mayoral election in the District of Columbia, yet, her campaign correspondence with legal scholar, feminist, civil rights activist, and unofficial political advisor Pauli Murray reveals the impact of gender on the outcome, the role of intersectionality in the lives of Black women, and the way defeats can lead to future victories.
Posted in: African American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Archivists describe the initial steps taken to add another million items to the largest collection held by the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Records.
Posted in: African American History, Behind the Scenes
Posted by: Ryan Reft
George Washington’s farm reports provide us precise details about the lives of the hundreds of workers, free and enslaved, on the president’s Mount Vernon estate, including the amount of time that the enslaved were sick or in “child bed”.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Politics