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Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Rachel Gross, author of Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America, to learn more about the surprising military origins of your favorite outdoor gear.
Posted in: Events, War and Society
Posted by: Julie Miller
After nearly a decade of planning, a new exhibition, “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution,” opened at the Library of Congress on March 28, 2025. The exhibit features the papers of George Washington from the Manuscript Division and the papers of Britain’s King George III from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.
Posted in: Events, Exhibits, Politics, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join historian Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recent book, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Elizabeth A. Novara.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In the latest book talk from the Made at the library event series, join author Allison S. Finkelstein as she discusses her research for Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.
Posted in: Events, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us on October 23 as Manuscript Division historian Josh Levy and reference librarian Loretta Deaver interview Cheryl Krasnick Warsh about her new biography of pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey and her pioneering battle against the life-threatening prescription drug thalidomide.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Join us on September 17, the anniversary of the 1862 battle of Antietam, as Manuscript Division historian Michelle Krowl and reference librarian Lara Szypszak interview historian George C. Rable about his new book Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War, which reevaluates the command relationship between General McClellan and President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War, Events, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Manuscript Division senior archives specialist Laura Kells and author Kurt Jensen as they highlight the work and legacy of film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian and Jensen’s new book, Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway with collection specialist and host Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions for a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy and its afterlives in more recent clashes over representations of race and sexuality in comics and graphic novels.
Posted in: African American History, Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us on May 7, 2024, to celebrate the Library’s NAACP collection with a presentation by Dr. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice.
Posted in: African American History, Events