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Posted by: Julie Miller
Joseph Ball’s mid-eighteenth century letters, written from his home near London to his family in Virginia, helped maintain connections between Britain and the American colonies. They also show how the institution of slavery operated in the world where George Washington was born.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Letters
Posted by: Julie Miller
In honor of Pride Month, the recently acquired personal papers of best-selling Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, literary critic, and teacher Mary Oliver (1935-2019) are now open to researchers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Letters, Literature Culture & the Arts, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
On the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, the case of Gin Foo Wong highlights how Asian immigrants attempted to circumvent the law’s nativist policies through the tactic of creating “paper” sons and daughters.
Posted in: Asian American History, Labor, Law, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A newly donated Susan B. Anthony letter reveals connections between family history and women’s history.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Giving History, Letters, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Manuscript Division intern Maureen S. Thompson describes the experience of locating African Americans in the Blair Family Papers, and highlights some of the notable documents she discovered.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Intern Spotlight, Letters, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
A volume containing the letters of Quaker loyalist Rebecca Rawle Shoemaker to her husband, Samuel Shoemaker, who was exiled in England, describes the plight of Quakers and loyalists in Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War.
Posted in: Early America, Letters, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Letters by Albert Einstein in the Sigmund Freud Papers at the Library of Congress reveal his clandestine love affair with Margarita Konenkova.
Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
While the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records might not contain your grandfather’s Pinkerton’s employment history, the collection offers information about the Pinkertons who ran the family’s agency and some of the more interesting criminals they investigated.