Of Note: Not THAT Kind of Husbandry
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
A classroom exchange at The Taft School in May 1910 confirms that students misinterpreting their textbooks is nothing new.
Category: Of Note
Of Note: “Its All Completely Nuts.” A Marine’s Humorous View of the New Pentagon Building, November 1942
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
What’s In Their Wallets?
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Wallets and their contents are sometimes contained in collections of personal papers, and can provide clues about their owners, based on what they carried with them and the times in which they lived.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Exhibits, Of Note
Of Note: Abraham Lincoln Promotes Another Union
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Among all the administrative burdens that confronted President Abraham Lincoln in August 1862, helping a naval officer get married was one task he seemingly enjoyed.
Posted in: Civil War, Of Note, War and Society
Of Note: Charles Wellington Reed’s Civil War “Emoji”
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
“The Eye That Never Sleeps”: Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
While the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records might not contain your grandfather’s Pinkerton’s employment history, the collection offers information about the Pinkertons who ran the family’s agency and some of the more interesting criminals they investigated.
Of Note: Lincoln Reelected. Simple Message, Complex Messaging System
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
In 1864, Anson Burlingame, an American diplomat in China, received a telegram from his counterpart in Russia with a simple message: Abraham Lincoln had been reelected president. Yet there was a complexity behind the simplicity.
Posted in: Civil War, Of Note, Politics, War and Society