Of Note: A Dessert Straight Out of History
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
The author recounts her culinary adventure attempting to recreate an original 1890s recipe for gingerbread found in the Rodgers Family Papers.
Category: Of Note
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
Of Note: Trust Your Gut: A Civil War Soldier’s Thanksgiving
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
Excerpts from a letter written November 27, 1864, by Lieutenant Samuel E. Nichols of the Union Army provide insight into the surprise contingencies that afflicted soldiers in his unit on Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War.
Posted in: Holidays, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
Of Note: Supreme Baseball
Posted by: Laura Kells
The notes exchanged between baseball fans Harry A. Blackmun and Potter Stewart during the 1973 American League Championships and the 1975 World Series show how notes exchanged between justices of the Supreme Court provide insight into their informal relationships, allowing us to understand better the individuals who serve on the nation's highest court.
Posted in: Of Note, Sports, Supreme Court
Of Note: Thomas Jefferson Thinks Again: A New Letter about Logan, Cresap, and the Yellow Creek Massacre
Posted by: Julie Miller
In 1797 Vice-President Thomas Jefferson learned that the perpetrator of the Yellow Creek Massacre was not the man he had named in his Notes on the State of Virginia. A letter newly acquired by the Manuscript Division tells the story.
Posted in: Early America, Native American History, Of Note, Politics
Of Note: Another Use for an Air Sickness Bag
Posted by: Laura Kells
Notes on an air sickness bag in the Bernard A. Schriever Papers illustrate the fact that, when people need to record their thoughts, all sorts of things can become writing paper.
Posted in: Of Note, Science and Technology
Of Note: Ida Rhodes Dreamed of the Future
Posted by: Josh Levy
A literate rant from pioneering programmer Ida Rhodes offers a window into the history of early digital computing, and the women who helped shape it.
Posted in: Of Note, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Of Note: Lessons from a Director’s Chair
Posted by: Laura Kells
This is the first in an occasional series in which we share items that have caught our eye. This unusual item from the papers of stage and film director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) is a memento from the first movie he ever directed, Applause (1929). Mamoulian saved the back of his director’s chair that had been …
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note