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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
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Fifty-six unpublished, mostly newly acquired letters from Philip Schuyler (1733-1804) to his daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and her husband Alexander Hamilton, have been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
Posted by: Ryan Reft
A new By the People crowdsourced transcription campaign, “American Federation of Labor Records: Letters in the Progressive Era,” launched in late April. By taking part in the campaign, volunteers will discover how the labor union engaged with issues of race, class, and gender during the early twentieth century.
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Labor, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join historians Meg McAleer and Josh Levy at noon (EDT) on Thursday, May 11, as they discuss founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s narrow escape from Nazi-controlled Vienna with Andrew Nagorski, author of the new book Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Events, International History, Science and Technology, War and Society
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: Laura Kells
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