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Posted by: Josh Levy
A new resource guide highlights the Manuscript Division's diverse collections on Native American history and cultures.
Posted in: Intern Spotlight, Native American History, Researcher Resources
Posted by: Josh Levy
Walt Whitman's handwritten draft of An American Primer reveals the poet not only as a prolific writer of words, but as a philosophizer of them as well.
Posted in: Intern Spotlight, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Ryan Reft
“Something must be done. We are producing educated and refined representatives, what for? They are denied their ambitions simply because of color. So I say let us gracefully go home where we can sit in any room we choose," Elizabeth Sykes wrote to Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Her letter discussed by 2021 Archives History and Heritage Advanced Internship (AHHA) intern, Sarah Shepherd offers a window into Black Nationalism of the early-20th century and an example of the kind of issues and themes explored by participants of the Library of Congress AHHA program.
Posted in: African American History, Intern Spotlight
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Lanai Huddleston, Archives History and Heritage Advanced Internship intern in the Manuscript Division, winter 2021, discusses the history of sororities and debutante balls in the African American community found in the Dupree African American Pentecostal Collection and materials in it derived from the Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Theta Omega Chapter of Raleigh, North Carolina, a sorority that includes Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, and many other outstanding Black women.
Posted in: African American History, Intern Spotlight, Women's & Gender History