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Posted by: Julie Miller
Benajah Jay Antrim’s journals and sketchbooks document an American artist’s journey across Mexico in 1849. As of January 29, 2025, you can volunteer to transcribe them as part of the “By the People” crowdsourcing project from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Hispanic and Latino History, International History
Posted by: Julie Miller
Applications for federal jobs fill thirty-two volumes in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress. Each one tells a story.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Letters, Politics
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: Julie Miller
Fifty-six unpublished, mostly newly acquired letters from Philip Schuyler (1733-1804) to his daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and her husband Alexander Hamilton, have been transcribed by Manuscript Division staff. The transcriptions are now available online, alongside images of the letters, as part of the Alexander Hamilton Papers on the Library of Congress website.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Letters