Press Releases and Feature Articles
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
- �She Could Look Into the Heavens�: Ojibwe Poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (blog post, 11/2021)
- Of Pemmican and Polariscopes: the 1860 Eclipse Expeditions (blog post, 9/2021)
- A Long Day Coming: Happy Juneteenth (blog post, 6/2021)
- The Poetic Hannah Arendt: A Conversation with Arendt Researcher Samantha Rose Hill (blog post, 6/2021)
- Pride Month: Walt Whitman�s �No Doubt the Efflux� (blog post, 6/2021)
- Wordsmithing Whitman: Diaries and Notebooks from the Feinberg-Whitman Papers (blog post, 5/2021)
- Remembrance: Whitman�s �The Death of Lincoln� and the By the People Whitman Campaign (blog post, 4/2021)
- �What the World Gives to Me�: The Correspondence of Georgia O�Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (blog post, 3/2021)
- Doing History with Born Digital Files: the Rhoda M�traux and Edward Lorenz Papers (blog post, 2/2021)
- On the Pulse of Morning: Remembering Maya Angelou (blog post, 2/2021)
- The Family Life of Ralph Ellison (blog post, 2/2021)
- �Bridgerton� and the Real Queen Charlotte (blog post, 1/2021)
- Inauguration Stories: George Washington�s Surprising Speech (blog post, 1/2021)
- Inauguration Stories: Lincoln�s 1865 �With Malice Toward None� Speech (blog post, 1/2021)
- When Rebecca the Raccoon Ruled the White House (blog post, 1/2021)
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
- Editor Ken McCormick and Doubleday's Women Writers (blog post, 12/2020)
- Comedy and the Corps: The Early Life of Art Buchwald (blog post, 11/2020)
- Library of Congress and National Park Service Receive Historic Collection on Women's Rights from National Woman's Party (press release, 10/2020)
- The Taft Papers and a Titanic Tragedy (blog post, 9/2020)
- The Suffrage Struggle After The 19th Amendment (blog post, 8/2020)
- World War II � The Double V Campaign (blog post, 8/2020)
- Al Neuharth: Newspaper Executive�s Papers Now at the Library (blog post, 8/2020)
- Hiroshima, 75 Years Later: A Survivor�s Account, Now at the Library (blog post, 8/2020)
- Ralph Ellison�s �Juneteenth� (blog post, 6/2020)
- The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and Jefferson (blog post, 5/2020)
- The House I Live In: Philip Roth�s America (blog post, 5/2020)
- Thoughts in the Time of Pandemic: Walt Whitman at Memorial Day (blog post, 5/2020)
- �This malignancy, it was right at our very doors.� Using Manuscripts to Study the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (blog post, 5/2020)
- Julia Sand: The Letters to President Arthur, Now Digital (blog post, 5/2020)
- Stone/Blackwell Marriage: To Love And Honor, But Not �Obey� (blog post, 5/2020)
- Papers of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur and William McKinley Now Online (4/2020)
- Papers of Three Presidents Digitized; Now Online (blog post, 4/2020)
- The Evangelical and the Journalist: Billy Sunday & A.B. MacDonald (blog post, 4/2020)
- By the People: Meet the Blackwells (blog post, 4/2020)
- �The Great Influenza� � Library Resources on the 1918 to 1919 Pandemic (blog post, 4/2020)
- Teaching Whitman Through Primary Source Analysis (blog post, 4/2020)
- Bugs in the White House? In Lincoln�s Time, They Swarmed (blog post, 3/2020)
- A President and a King, George Washington and King George III, in a Dangerous Year (blog post, 3/2020)
- Women�s History: Grace Paley�s Family Tree (blog post 3/2020)
-
Researching the U.S. Supreme Court at the Library of Congress
(blog post, 2/2020)
- For Presidents Day…Why Not Read Lincoln’s Mail? (blog post, 2/2020)
- Love Letters Straight to Your Heart (blog post, 2/2020)
- “Caged Bird” Inspired by the Library of Congress (blog post, 2/2020)
- “Ro-sa Parks! Ro-sa Parks!” Kicking off Black History Month (blog post, 2/2020)
- Crowdsourcing Project Launches Campaign to Transcribe Rosa Parks' Papers and Reveal the Woman Behind the Legend (2/2020)
- Library Treasures Featured in �Fearless: A Tribute to Irish American Women� (blog post, 2/2020)
- Researching the U.S. Supreme Court at the Library of Congress (blog post, 1/2020)
- �Lost Girls� Artwork from the Holocaust (blog post, 1/2020)
- American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital (blog post, 1/2020)
- Letters Give an Intimate Look at Classic Hollywood Era (blog post, 1/2020)
- Inventing the Modern World (blog post, 1/2020)
New Acquisitions
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
-
New Book 'Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words' Reveals Parks through her Private Manuscripts and Notes (12/19)
- Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: A Short Documentary (blog post, 12/19)
-
Thomas Jefferson: A Man of the Pasta (blog post, 12/19)
- �The Crown� At the Library (blog post, 11/19)
- Newly Digitized Collections Now Online Include History of Women's Suffrage, Civil War, Landscape Architecture and Monetary Policy (11/19)
- "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words," a New Exhibition, Offers Intimate View of Seminal Figure's Life (11/19)
- Inquiring Minds: Family Surprised to Discover Civil War Veteran�s Ordeal on LOC Blog (blog post, 11/19)
- How �The Postman Always Rings Twice� Got Its �Sort of Crazy� Name (blog post, 10/19)
- Inquiring Minds: Alan Gephardt, Garfield Expert (blog post, 10/19)
- Freud’s Last Days in Vienna as Nazis Approached (blog post, 9/19)
- Laureate at the Library: Joy Harjo Visits the Manuscript Division (blog post, 8/2019)
- Civil War General McClellan: Calligrams Hiding in Plain Sight (blog post, 9/19)
- Simon Sobeloff and Jewish Baltimore (blog post, 9/19)
- The Notebooks Behind Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” (blog post, 9/19)
- Now Online! The Love Letters of James and Lucretia Garfield (blog post, 8/19)
- Crowdsourcing Challenge! (blog post on suffrage collections transcription, 8/19)
- Papers of President James Garfield Now Online (7/19)
- The Will of Claudia Izard: An Uneasy Antebellum Testament (blog post, 6/19)
- Starting from Paumanok/Proto-Leaf: Happy 200th Birthday, Walt Whitman! (blog post, 5/2019)
- Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman with Series of Exhibits, Events and Digital Crowdsourcing to Showcase Collections (4/19)
- My Sprig of Lilac (blog post, 4/2019)
- The Evolution of Walt Whitman�s �O Captain! My Captain!� (blog post, 4/2019)
- Wound Dressing: Walt Whitman in Washington (blog post, 4/2019)
- New Exhibition 'Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote' to Feature Original Manuscripts, Images of Suffrage Movement (5/19)
- Clara Barton: A Memorial Day Story (blog post, 5/19)
- News Dispatches from The Associated Press from 1915 to 1930 Now Online (5/19)
- Crowdsourcing Invitation: Help Tell a Civil War Soldier’s Story (blog post, 5/19)
- Remembering I. M. Pei (blog post, 5/19)
- ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later (blog post, 5/19)
- Crowdsourcing the Clara Barton Diaries? Let Miss Barton Come to Your Aid! (blog post, 4/19)
- Opening Day! A Video Tour of Library’s Baseball Americana (blog post, 3/19)
- Branch Rickey Crowdsourcing Project: It’s Outta Here! (blog post, 3/19)
- Inquiring Minds: Researching Women’s History at the Library (blog post, 3/19)
- Archival Materials of Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt Now Online (3/19)
- African-American History Month: First Pan-African Congress (blog post, 2/19)
- Theatrical Readings and Panel Discussions Among Highlights of African-American History Month (1/19)
- 2019 Exhibitions and Programs Explore America's Changemakers (1/19)
- Crowdsourcing Helps to Unlock the Mystery of Cursive (blog post, 1/19)
New Acquisitions
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
- 155th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address at the Library of Congress (11/18)
- World War I: Armistice Day (blog post, 11/18)
- New Online: A Civil War Marriage Confronts Illiteracy (blog post, 11/18)
- Crowdsourcing Tool Enables Discovery of Unique Treasures at the Library of Congress (10/18)
- Explore, Transcribe and Tag at Crowd.loc.gov! (blog post, 10/18)
- New Online: Diarist Documents Eventful Times on the Confederate Home Front (blog post, 10/18)
- Papers of President Theodore Roosevelt Now Online (10/18)
- New Online: Theodore Roosevelt Papers (blog post, 10/18)
- New Online: The Man Who Would Not Let History Forget Him (blog post, 8/18)
- George Washington: Gardener and Globalist (blog post, 8/18)
- My Job at the Library: Helping Researchers Uncover New Narratives in Manuscripts (blog post, 8/18)
- Inquiring Minds: Olmsted Holdings Offer Blueprint for Preserving Historical Landscapes (blog post, 7/18)
- Famed Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted's Papers Now Online (7/18)
- New Online: Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (blog post, 7/18)
- New Online: Papers of the President People Love to Hate (blog post, 6/18)
- World War I: The Battle of Belleau Wood (blog post, 6/18)
- Linking Letters with Lyrics: “Hamilton” Songs Draw on Original Library Documents (blog post, 5/18)
- Japanese-America’s Pastime: Baseball (blog post, 5/18)
- Baseball Americana: When Jackie Met Rickey (blog post, 5/18)
- Papers of President Woodrow Wilson Now Online (5/18)
- Baseball Americana: “Laws of Base Ball,” Babe Ruth’s Shoes and Jackie Robinson’s Letters to Be Displayed in New Exhibition (blog post, 5/18)
- Baseball's 'Magna Carta' to be Displayed in Major Exhibition on the Game (5/18)
- Letters to Lyrics: Library to Display Alexander Hamilton's Papers Linked to Hit Musical (4/18)
- New Online: Joseph Holt Papers (blog post, 4/18)
- New Online: Benjamin Franklin Papers (blog post, 4/18)
- Papers of Benjamin Franklin Now Online (4/18)
- Inquiring Minds: Uncovering the Many Meanings of Slave Narratives (blog post, 4/18)
- New Online: Branch Rickey Scouting Reports (blog post, 4/18)
- Baseball Scouting Reports of Branch Rickey Now Online (4/18)
- Archival Materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Now Online (3/18)
- World War I: The Women’s Land Army (blog post, 3/18)
- New Online: High-Resolution Color Images of James Madison’s Notes from the Constitutional Convention (blog post, 3/18)
- World War I: African-American Soldiers Battle More Than Enemy Forces (blog post, 2/18)
- New Online: William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (blog post, 2/18)
- Papers of President James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Now Online (2/18)
- New Online: James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers (blog post, 2/18)
- African-American History Month: Happy Birthday, Frederick Douglass! (blog post, 2/18)
- Library of Congress to Open Major Exhibition on Baseball in Summer 2018
(1/18)
- World War I: American Jazz Delights the World (blog post, 1/18)
- Technology at the Library: Long-Hidden Text Is Uncovered in Alexander Hamilton Letter (blog post, 1/18)
- Hearing Abraham Lincoln’s Voice (blog post, 1/18)
New Acquisitions
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
- World War I: Injured Veterans and the Disability Rights Movement (blog post, 12/17)
- This Day in History: Wright Brothers Take Flight (blog post, 12/17)
- Veterans History: Spell Checking the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (blog post, 11/17)
- New Online: Abraham Lincoln Papers (blog post, 11/17)
- Free to Use and Reuse: The Story of Abraham Lincoln (blog post, 11/17)
- Veterans Day: Struggling to Build a New Life after War (blog post, 11/17)
- Library to Host Symposium on Early Research of Papers of King George III (11/17)
- Papers of Abraham Lincoln Now Online in Full Color (11/17)
- New Online: Ulysses S. Grant Papers (blog post, 10/17)
- Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Now Online (10/17)
- World War I: Immigrants Make a Difference on the Front Lines and at Home (blog post, 9/17)
- New Online: James K. Polk Papers (blog post, 9/17)
- A Look at Alexander Hamilton’s Saucy, Religious, Sentimental Poetry (blog post, 9/17)
- Inquiring Minds: Hunting for Treasure in the Manuscript Division (blog post, 9/17)
- World War I: Workers Greet Labor Day 1918 with Optimism (blog post, 8/17)
- Alexander Hamilton Papers Now Online (8/17)
- New Online: Alexander Hamilton Papers (blog post, 8/17)
- New Online: Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke’s Papers (blog post, 8/17)
- World War I: Exhibition Specialists to Host Live Web Talks (blog post, 8/17)
- Library Launches Free WWI Webinar Series (8/17)
- Library of Congress Junior Fellows Display Collection Treasures (7/17)
- World War I: Quentin Roosevelt’s Story (blog post, 7/17)
- New Online: Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton Papers (blog post, 7/17)
- History’s Greatest Birthday Card: The Polish Declarations (blog post, 6/17)
- Ahead of July 4, a Unique Birthday Card to America Goes Online (6/17)
- Library of Congress, Royal Archives Plan Major Joint Exhibition (6/17)
- Pride in the Library: LGBTQ+ Voices in the Library’s Collections (blog post, 6/17)
- New Online: Margaret Bayard Smith Papers (blog post, 6/17)
- Library to Present Symposium on Civil Liberties During World War I (5/17)
- Brigadier General Franklin Pierce (blog post, 5/17)
- First Drafts of History: Presidential Papers at the Library of Congress (blog post, 5/17)
- Civil War Diary: “This Hell-Upon-Earth of a Prison” (blog post, 5/17)
- New Online: Iconic Recordings, Presidential Papers and a Civil War Diary (blog post, 4/17)
- Happy 100th Birthday, I. M. Pei (blog post, 4/17)
- Reading Whitman (blog post, 4/17)
- World War I: A New World Order – Woodrow Wilson’s First Draft of the League of Nations Covenant (blog post, 4/17)
- "Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I" Opens (4/17)
- "Play Ball!" Branch Rickey's Scouting Reports (blog post, 4/17)
- Reading Whitman (blog post 4/2017)
- Women’s History Month: Zora Neale Hurston Dramas (blog post, 3/17)
- New Online: Walt Whitman, Alan Lomax and More (blog post, 3/2017)
- Women’s History Month: A New Look for a Rich Resource (blog post, 3/17)
- Freud Collection: The Opening of the Eissler Interviews (blog post, 2/17)
- Highlights of the Sigmund Freud Papers blog post, 2/17)
- World War I: Online Offerings (blog post, 2/17)
- Love in the Ex-Slave Narratives (blog post, 2/17)
- Kurt R. Eissler and the Sigmund Freud Archives (blog post, 2/17)
- Experts’ Corner: Presidential Podcasts (blog post, 2/17)
- Curator’s Picks: Surrogate First Ladies (blog post, 2/17)
- New Online: Sigmund Freud Collection (blog post, 2/17)
- Sigmund Freud Collection Now Online (2/17)
- Major Exhibition on World War I (1/17)
- Pic of the Week: Presidential Inauguration Treasures (blog post, 1/17)
- Library of Congress Looks at Presidential Inaugurations in Wide-Ranging Display from Jan. 23 to Feb. 4 (1/17)
- New Online: The Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection (blog post, 1/17)
- Campaigning for President (blog post, 1/17)
- New Online: The George Washington Papers Move to a New Digital Platform (blog post, 1/17)
Exhibits, Symposia, Publications, and Online Presentations
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
- 'Glinda
of Oz': Baum Descendants Present Manuscript to Library (LCIB,11/00)
- Descendants
of L. Frank Baum Give Library of Congress Glinda Of Oz Manuscript (11/00)
- Presidential
Inauguration Collection Debuts on American Memory Web Site (11/00)
- Two
Collections on Americans and Their Land Debut on American Memory
Web Site (Alexander Graham Bell Papers) (10/00)
- Notes
of the Founding Fathers: Letters of Delegates to Congress,
1774-1789 (LCIB, 10/00)
- Washington's
Diaries Online (LCIB, 10/00)
- Blair
Family Treasures: Historic Papers Added to Library's Cache (LCIB,
10/00)
- George
Washington's Diaries to Be Available Online (9/00)
- Library
of Congress Adds New Online Collections to the American Memory
Web Site (Thomas Jefferson Papers) (6/00)
- Library
Publishes Cumulative Index to 25-Volume Congressional Correspondence
Series (6/00)
- The First
Private Eye: Library Receives Pinkerton Archives (LCIB,
6/00)
- Library
of Congress to Receive Pinkerton Archives (5/00)
- New
On-Line Collections Added to American Memory Web Site (Lincoln,
Bernstein, African-American Materials) (3/00)
- Meeting
of Frontiers: Web Project Explores Russian, American Settlement (LCIB,
1/00)
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
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