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Posted by: Josh Levy
Learn about the emergence of Washington, D.C. as a scientific city, the pioneering anthropology of Anita Newcomb McGee, and the scientific advocacy of astronomer Simon Newcomb in a conversation with historian and author Vincent Femia on his recent scholarship and research in the Manuscript Division.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us in person for a “Made at the Library” film screening of “Outsider. Freud” (2025) and conversation with filmmaker Yair Qedar. Qedar takes the viewer on a journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud, set in four acts and combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts incorporating the Library’s Sigmund Freud Papers and other collections.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us in person for a “Made at the Library” film screening of “Outsider. Freud” (2025) and conversation with filmmaker Yair Qedar. Qedar takes the viewer on a journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud, set in four acts and combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts incorporating the Library’s Sigmund Freud Papers and other collections.
Posted in: Events, International History, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
William W. Coblentz was an Ohio farm boy turned physicist. His investigations into psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century created plenty of documentation. But does it prove anything?
Posted in: Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join Dawn Day Biehler as she discusses her recent book, Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Barbara Bair.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Manuscript Division staff speak with Kelsey Henry, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and former research fellow with the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (CHSTM), about her research in the Manuscript Division.
Posted in: African American History, Researcher Stories, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join historian Catherine McNeur as she discusses her recent book, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, with Manuscript Division historians Josh Levy and Elizabeth A. Novara.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
This is a guest post by Onur Ayaz, formerly a Junior Fellow in the Manuscript Division. When does entrepreneurship become innovative, and when does innovation become invention? Are activists, educators, scientists, and laborers also innovators? Are they entrepreneurs? In 1918 Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian who also collected manuscripts, ephemera, and other materials …
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Intern Spotlight, Science and Technology
Posted by: Josh Levy
Join us on October 23 as Manuscript Division historian Josh Levy and reference librarian Loretta Deaver interview Cheryl Krasnick Warsh about her new biography of pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey and her pioneering battle against the life-threatening prescription drug thalidomide.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History