Newly available high-resolution full color scans of oversize drawings and sketches by Union army Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs provide vivid new insight into how the engineer, architect, and artist saw the world around him.
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.
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.
In 1864, Anson Burlingame, an American diplomat in China, received a telegram from his counterpart in Russia with a simple message: Abraham Lincoln had been reelected president. Yet there was a complexity behind the simplicity.
Join us on December 5 for a conversation with historian Elizabeth D. Leonard about her recent biography of the controversial politician and Civil War general Benjamin F. Butler, whose “noisy, fearless life” defied the caricatures history attached to him.
Join the Manuscript Division for a special night of Live! at the Library on Thursday, May 19, from 5 pm to 8 pm in the Thomas Jefferson Building in honor of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.