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Category: International History

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

“Great Elocutionary Power and Dramatic Force”: George Kennan’s Lectures on Russia as Reported in American Newspapers, 1889-1893

Posted by: Laura Kells

In a class project for a course on Imperial Russian history at Virginia Tech, students learned about the Manuscript Division's holdings of explorer and lecturer George Kennan's personal papers and examined newspaper accounts of his lectures using the Library's Chronicling America website.

Posted in: Digital Collections, International History, Researcher Stories

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

Finding Rats in the Barry Commoner Papers

Posted by: Josh Levy

In the late 1960s, Barry Commoner and the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems became involved in an ambitious, federally funded effort to understand the ecology of the sewer rat, and then kill it. That project’s failure at a moment of heightened political radicalism reveals how the rat-human relationship can highlight histories of economic injustice. With a major reprocessing of the Barry Commoner Papers now complete, those stories, and more, emerge with far greater clarity.

Posted in: International History, Science and Technology