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Posted by: Josh Levy
An 1837 map of Marietta, Ohio, contained in the papers of archaeologist E. G. Squier, tells a rich story of Indigenous architecture, nationalist aspirations, and Midwestern pride.
Posted in: Early America, Native American History, Science and Technology, Uncategorized
Posted by: Julie Miller
People with grievances often make the best preservers of the past – as in this 1801 letter from Pierre Charles L’Enfant to Alexander Hamilton, in which the architect and city planner complains that he was never paid for his work on New York’s Federal Hall in 1789.
Posted in: Early America, Politics
Posted by: Julie Miller
Early American business records in the Manuscript Division tell an unexpected story about independent women.
Posted in: Early America, 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Fifty-six unpublished, mostly newly acquired letters from Philip Schuyler (1733-1804) to his daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and her husband Alexander Hamilton, have been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
Posted by: Julie Miller
In 1792 Spanish-Peruvian naval officer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed up the coast of North America to meet with George Vancouver and the leaders of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. His journal is in the Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Early America, Hispanic and Latino History, Of Note
Posted by: Julie Miller
Did King George III of Great Britain really say that George Washington was “the greatest man in the world?” And if he did, who did he say it to?
Posted in: Early America, Politics
Posted by: Julie Miller
In 1797 Vice-President Thomas Jefferson learned that the perpetrator of the Yellow Creek Massacre was not the man he had named in his Notes on the State of Virginia. A letter newly acquired by the Manuscript Division tells the story.
Posted in: Early America, Native American History, Of Note, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
A marble case in the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building once held the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. This blog describes that “shrine,” from its opening in 1924 to its closing ceremony in 1952.
Posted in: Early America, Library of Congress History
Posted by: Julie Miller
Philip Schuyler's letters about yellow fever in the Alexander Hamilton Papers reveal a complicated and many-sided character responding to a dangerous and frightening moment in American history.
Posted in: Early America, Letters, Politics