Summer Suffrage Transcription Challenge: Alice Stone Blackwell and the Politics of Poetry
Learn about Alice Stone Blackwell’s penchant for poetry and volunteer to review transcribed materials in the NAWSA Records and the Blackwell Family Papers.
Of Note: Another Use for an Air Sickness Bag
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.
Of Note: Ida Rhodes Dreamed of the Future
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.
The Shrine at the Library of Congress, 1924-1952
A marble case in the Great Hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building once held the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. This blog describes that “shrine,” from its opening in 1924 to its closing ceremony in 1952.
Patsy Takemoto Mink’s Title IX Legacy
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.
Lifetime Post: The Leonard Downie Jr. Papers
With the opening of the Leonard Downie Jr. Papers in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, researchers will have an inside view into the internal dynamics at one of nation’s most august newspapers, The Washington Post.
50 Years of Watergate: A New Exhibit Commemorates One of the 20th Century’s Most Famous Political Scandals
A new exhibit in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building featuring two dozen collections from the Manuscript Division, several of which were recently acquired, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Watergate, the definitive American political scandal of the twentieth century.
Made at the Library: Vera Rubin, Trailblazing Astronomer and Advocate for Women in Science
Join us on June 16 for a conversation with authors Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton about their new biography of celebrated astronomer Vera Rubin.
Making Women’s Suffrage History More Discoverable through Transcription
Since 2018, By the People virtual volunteers have completed transcriptions of more than 143,000 pages of documents from the Manuscript Division’s women’s suffrage collections, enhancing search and accessibility. Public help is still needed to finalize thousands of transcriptions awaiting review.
“Great Elocutionary Power and Dramatic Force”: George Kennan’s Lectures on Russia as Reported in American Newspapers, 1889-1893
In a class project for a course on Imperial Russian history at Virginia Tech, students learned about the Manuscript Division’s holdings of explorer and lecturer George Kennan’s personal papers and examined newspaper accounts of his lectures using the Library’s Chronicling America website.