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Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Wallets and their contents are sometimes contained in collections of personal papers, and can provide clues about their owners, based on what they carried with them and the times in which they lived.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Exhibits, Of Note
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
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.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A newly donated Susan B. Anthony letter reveals connections between family history and women’s history.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Giving History, Letters, Women's & Gender History
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: Julie Miller
Library of Congress volunteer transcription program By the People, in collaboration with the Center for Black Digital History at Pennsylvania State University, invites you to join a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon focused on letters from the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress!
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This Thanksgiving take inspiration from Alice Stone Blackwell’s “Pleasure Book,” where the journalist and women’s rights advocate recorded daily moments of optimism and joy.
Posted in: Diaries, Digital Collections, Holidays, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Explore the Manuscript Division’s new online resource guide, “Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material”, and discover how to leverage born-digital manuscripts in your next research project.
Posted in: Digital Collections
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