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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A newly donated Susan B. Anthony letter reveals connections between family history and women’s history.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Giving History, Letters, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
Library of Congress volunteer transcription program By the People, in collaboration with the Center for Black Digital History at Pennsylvania State University, invites you to join a Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon focused on letters from the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress!
Posted in: African American History, Digital Collections, Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Manuscript Division intern Maureen S. Thompson describes the experience of locating African Americans in the Blair Family Papers, and highlights some of the notable documents she discovered.
Posted in: African American History, Early America, Intern Spotlight, Letters, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
A new acquisition sheds light on White House New Year’s receptions, fashion, and the social customs of Washington society during the presidency of James Monroe in the early national period.
Posted in: Holidays, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Julie Miller
A volume containing the letters of Quaker loyalist Rebecca Rawle Shoemaker to her husband, Samuel Shoemaker, who was exiled in England, describes the plight of Quakers and loyalists in Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War.
Posted in: Early America, Letters, War and Society, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), also known as the Lucretia Mott Amendment, to the U.S. Congress on December 10, 1923. Find materials throughout the Library of Congress on the history of this unratified, but impactful, constitutional amendment.
Posted in: Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
This Thanksgiving take inspiration from Alice Stone Blackwell’s “Pleasure Book,” where the journalist and women’s rights advocate recorded daily moments of optimism and joy.
Posted in: Diaries, Digital Collections, Holidays, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomes its second National Woman’s Party research fellow this fall and announces the opening of the application period for the third year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
The author connects with the past by sewing a dress inspired by one worn by pageant director Hazel MacKaye, as seen in a photograph from the National Woman’s Party Records.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History