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Photograph of attendees at Representative Adriano Espaillat's Dominicans on the Hill event examining exhibit items arrayed on a confrerence table inside the Capitol Visitor Center.

Dominicans on the Hill 2023

Archivist in blue hoodie prying open dark green metal cabinet with crowbar

Behind the Scenes: Sorting Part X of the NAACP Papers

Two men smiling in military uniform with forest in background

Behind the Scenes: Preserving the Edwin Swillinger Scrapbook

Image of Chicago skyline at sunset.

Unfolding Research: Making Mexican Chicago

Black and white portrait of a woman wearing an earring with her hair tied back facing left

Story-Teller Poet: The Ai Ogawa Papers are Newly Available in the Manuscript Division

Typwritten letter with handwritten signatures of Burnita Shelton Matthews and Anna Kelton Wiley.

Feminist Rivals: The National Woman’s Party and the League of Women Voters in Post-Suffrage Politics

Yellow cover of a booklet wth graphic of the Statue of Liberty. Title reads "Greater Miami Section, National Council of Jewish Women, Presents Outreach for New Immigrants"

Behind the Scenes: Uncovering Family History While Processing the Records of the National Council of Jewish Women

Sign reading "Save Our Republic: Impeach Earl Warren" with American flag in corner

Made at the Library: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Front and back covers of light brown book laying flat

Gideon v. Wainwright at 60: Anthony Lewis, Clarence Gideon, and America’s Public Defenders