Category: Digital Collections

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Photograph of Sam Ponczak smiling head and shoulders

“Lest You Forget”: Samuel Ponczak (1937-2022)

January 3, 2023

The Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States present a snapshot of Poland in 1926 through stunning illustrations and a virtual census of one-sixth of its population, just before the unimaginable devastation caused by war. This blog is a tribute to Samuel Ponczak (1937-2022), an untiring advocate for the collection.

Posted in: Digital Collections, International History

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

“Great Elocutionary Power and Dramatic Force”: George Kennan’s Lectures on Russia as Reported in American Newspapers, 1889-1893

May 26, 2022

Posted by: Laura Kells

In a class project for a course on Imperial Russian history at Virginia Tech, students learned about the Manuscript Division's holdings of explorer and lecturer George Kennan's personal papers and examined newspaper accounts of his lectures using the Library's Chronicling America website.

Posted in: Digital Collections, International History, Researcher Stories

Refined by: (Author) Laura Kells