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Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
Excerpts from a letter written November 27, 1864, by Lieutenant Samuel E. Nichols of the Union Army provide insight into the surprise contingencies that afflicted soldiers in his unit on Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War.
Posted in: Holidays, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
How did James A. Garfield's wife respond when he channeled his inner "mean girl" after observing Abraham and Mary Lincoln for the first time?
Posted in: Digital Collections, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
A new collection in the Manuscript Division contains the vivid testimony of a witness to the 1946 atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. But it also raises questions about what those who viewed the tests were unable to see, and how researchers might try to fill the gaps.
Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology, War and Society
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis.
Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society
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: Ryan Reft
When juxtaposed with her memoir, one discovers discordant, countervailing emotions regarding her adopted city in the correspondence of Washington Post editor Meg Greenfield that parallel the famous, sometimes dissident sound of the avant-garde New York band, The Velvet Underground.