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Posted by: Michelle Krowl
After Theodore Roosevelt lost the 1912 presidential election, children who had hoped he would win wrote to console him, and by extension themselves.
Posted in: Politics
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: Julie Miller
Filed with the correspondence in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress are six printed copies of an agreement to boycott British goods that Washington, then a Virginia burgess representing Fairfax County, brought to his constituents to sign. The agreement, crafted by the colony’s House of Burgesses (the lower house of Virginia’s colonial …
Posted in: Early America, Politics
Posted by: Ryan Reft
When President Richard M. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, he departed for an exile in San Clemente, California, that began with depression and anxiety, but ended with a presidential pardon, a hospitalization, and eventually political renewal.
Posted in: Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In celebration of July 4, several items from the Library’s collections document how the nation’s 1876 centennial celebration inspired women suffragists to continue the fight for the vote and for equality.
Posted in: Holidays, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
On the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, the case of Gin Foo Wong highlights how Asian immigrants attempted to circumvent the law’s nativist policies through the tactic of creating “paper” sons and daughters.
Posted in: Asian American History, Labor, Law, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Congresswoman Patsy Mink's resolve to defeat gender-based discrimination and fight for women's educational equality encouraged the success of Title IX, which was passed fifty years ago today. Now a new quarter commemorates her legacy.
Posted in: Asian American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
In summer 1947, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted nine bright objects in the sky over Washington State flying, he said, “like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.” Reporters shorthanded the description of these objects to “flying saucers.” Sightings proliferated, and Americans fell into breathless speculation. Three years later, an unlikely investigator was on the case: Eleanor Roosevelt.
Posted in: Politics, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In celebration of Women’s History Month, discover American women’s petitions on a range of personal and political issues in Manuscript Division collections.
Posted in: African American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History