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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: 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
Posted by: Julie Miller
The business records of two early American Quaker merchants, recently acquired by the Library’s Manuscript Division, show trade with the Lenape Indians, recovery after the devastation of the Revolutionary War, and two American cities coming into their own.
Posted in: Early America
Posted by: Julie Miller
On the last day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 Benjamin Franklin made a remark that we still quote today. But did he really say it? And who was the woman he said it to? A diary in the Manuscript Division holds the evidence.
Posted in: Early America, Politics