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Category: War and Society

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

New Collections and Highlights from 2021

Posted by: Ryan Reft

As the year draws to a close, it seems like a good time to look back and highlight some of the political, social, cultural, military, and scientific manuscript collections and resource guides that the Manuscript Division has recently made available for researchers to explore. We’re already hard at work acquiring, arranging, and describing the historical …

Dramatic watercolor and crayon drawing depicting a destroyed Statue of Liberty and New York City in flames.

Propaganda War: Author John Hamilton Discusses WWI and the Birth of American Propaganda

Posted by: Ryan Reft

World War I had a wide ranging impact on Europe and the United States particularly in the management of news, information, and propaganda. Join the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and author John M. Hamilton on November 10 at 12 noon for a discussion of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and its influence on civil liberties, news gathering, and the issuance of propaganda in the United States and abroad.