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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In the latest book talk from the Made at the Library event series, learn about artist Mary Cassatt’s connections to the American women’s suffrage movement in a conversation with author Ruth Iskin about her research in the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Laura Kells
A look at an eye-catching vacation photo from the summer of 1887 contained in the F. Holland Day Papers.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Dawn Day Biehler as she discusses her recent book, Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts, Science and Technology
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
In 1972, at the end of her life, British mystery novelist Agatha Christie wrote two letters to an American teenager. In them, she shares insight into her philosophy on both writing and crime (fiction).
Posted in: Letters, Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Josh Levy
Supplementary items from the Manuscript Division’s Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection are newly available for transcription through the Library of Congress By the People program.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Julie Miller
A new agile case exhibit shows off the Manuscript Division’s collection of Mary Oliver Papers.
Posted in: Exhibits, Letters, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Julie Miller
The earliest surviving poem by Edgar Allan Poe is included in the Ellis & Allan Company Records in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Early America, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Julie Miller
The photographs in the Library of Congress Archives provide a look into the Library throughout the twentieth century. They document visits from authors, politicians, and celebrities as well as Library staff and their work.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Literature Culture & the Arts, Science and Technology
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
This is a guest blog by Barbara Bair, historian of Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Manuscript Division. In 1990, author Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). He later received the Hispanic Heritage Award …
Posted in: Hispanic and Latino History, Literature Culture & the Arts