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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
A 1937 tea party held at the home of the chief of naval operations, today’s official vice presidential residence, reveals a mansion that was once a showcase of women’s hidden political influence within the nation’s military elite.
Posted in: War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomed its third National Woman’s Party Research fellow this summer and announces the opening of the application period for the fourth year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Rachel McNellis
A glimpse into the life of newspaper owner and women’s rights activist Idah S. Pratt Foster and the unusual way in which she received dozens of marriage proposals.
Posted in: Journalism, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In the latest book talk from the Made at the library event series, join author Allison S. Finkelstein as she discusses her research for Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945.
Posted in: Events, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In anticipation of National Cat Day on October 29, this post highlights some feline-related imagery and expressions of friendship found in the Manuscript Division’s Clara Barton Papers.
Posted in: War and Society, Women's & Gender History
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
Posted by: Josh Levy
This post is coauthored by Morgan Black, librarian at the United States Naval Observatory, and Josh Levy, historian of science and technology at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. When Maria Mitchell spotted a telescopic comet from the roof of her Nantucket home in 1847, a historic feat that helped make her a national celebrity, …
Posted in: Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
The newly opened papers of sex therapist and talk show host Ruth Westheimer contain thousands of letters sent by listeners of her radio program and viewers of her television show, providing insight into the sexual frustrations and obsessions of the 1980s. They also document the dynamic rise in popularity of “Dr. Ruth.”
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Media History, Women's & Gender History