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Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Manuscript Division senior archives specialist Laura Kells and author Kurt Jensen as they highlight the work and legacy of film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian and Jensen’s new book, Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway with collection specialist and host Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
In honor of Poetry Month, join professors and coeditors Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein as they discuss their new book The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose with Manuscript Division historian Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
Walt Whitman’s birthday month of May marks the addition of a new Manuscript Division collection in the By the People Walt Whitman Campaign.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
In honor of Georgia O'Keeffe's November 15 birthday, transcriptions are now available in the Manuscript Division's online Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz collection, allowing researchers to delve into the digitized documents in new ways.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
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: Josh Levy
A new crowdsourcing transcription campaign launched in celebration of Women’s History Month by the Library of Congress By the People program is now complete. It features letters written by acclaimed painter Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, the photographer, fine arts impresario, and gallery manager Alfred Stieglitz to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Introducing a new blog with stories from one of the world’s most extensive archives related to American history, the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Politics, Science and Technology, War and Society