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Posted by: Julie Miller
Filipino politician Apolinario Mabini’s “Manifesto Regarding the American Occupation and the Philippine Insurrection,” 1902, provides insight into the shifting political landscape of the Philippines after the conclusion of the Philippine-American War and the subsequent annexation of the archipelago by the United States.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, War and Society
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: Rachel McNellis
While on board a passenger ship anchored in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, Confederate surgeon Dr. Edward S. Aldrich witnessed the Battle of Fort Sumter and encountered the USRC Harriet Lane. His personal account is detailed in a family letter in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Posted in: Civil War, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
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: Julie Miller
The Milagros Gonzalez Jamias Family Photograph Album portrays aspects of Philippine society during the American colonial period, including social and economic reforms implemented by President William S. Taft, and the private life of a wealthy family.
Posted in: Asian American History, International History, Of Note
Posted by: Josh Levy
In June 1910, a few days after President William Howard Taft signed legislation allowing the Arizona and New Mexico territories to move toward statehood, a strange telegram arrived in the White House, which reveals the story of a river that once buzzed with legend.
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
A classroom exchange at The Taft School in May 1910 confirms that students misinterpreting their textbooks is nothing new.
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
When the U.S. Army started moving into the Pentagon in 1942, author, artist, and U.S. Marine Corps officer Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr., penned a humorous, but not entirely complimentary, description of the new building.
Posted in: Of Note, War and Society
Posted by: Laura Kells
Physical aspects of a document, such as stains on a World War II-era telegram in the K. C. Emerson Papers, can sometimes add details to the story it tells, or leave you wondering.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, War and Society