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Articles by Lewis Wyman
Archive: 2026 (44 Posts)
Co-Conspirators for Compassion: Christine Stevens and Ann Cottrell Free August 27, 2026 Posted by: Josh Levy Correspondence and archival materials located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division’s Ann Cottrell Free papers shed light on the close collaboration and friendship between Free and Christine Stevens, founder of the Animal Welfare Institute.
Archive: October 2026 (2 Posts)
October 8, 2026 Posted by: Lewis Wyman Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is gaining renewed interest with the October 2026 release of a new Netflix mini-series adaptation of his novel East of Eden (1952) from screenwriter and showrunner Zoe Kazan.
Category: Literature Culture & the Arts
October 8, 2026 Posted by: Lewis Wyman Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is gaining renewed interest with the October 2026 release of a new Netflix mini-series adaptation of his novel East of Eden (1952) from screenwriter and showrunner Zoe Kazan.
Archive: July 2026 (5 Posts)
Lillian Gatlin: Aviation’s First Influencer July 23, 2026 Posted by: Josh Levy Lillian Gatlin is best remembered for being the first woman to fly across the United States, but she saw herself in grander terms: as a pioneering thinker born with “idea virus.” A new collection of Gatlin’s papers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division offers clues to the many ideas that animated her life. Posted in: Aviation, Women's & Gender History
Unfolding History
Margaret Hunter Hall: Reluctant Traveler to the Antebellum United States June 26, 2025 Posted by: Julie Miller In letters to her sister, Margaret Hunter Hall (1799-1876), wife of the popular British travel author Basil Hall (1788-1844), recorded her impressions of the United States during a trip the couple took in 1827-1828. These are available for research in the Margaret Hunter Hall Papers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Posted in: Early America, International History, Letters
Category: Hispanic and Latino History
Made at the Library: Making Mexican Chicago with Mike Amezcua June 20, 2023 Posted by: Ryan Reft Join historian Georgetown University history professor and author, Mike Amezcua at noon (EDT) on Monday, June 26, as he discusses his new book, Making Mexican Chicago.
Unfolding History
Of Note: Registering the Dewey Decimal System at the Library of Congress April 23, 2026 Posted by: Lewis Wyman An 1876 letter from Melvil Dewey to Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford represents the beginnings of Dewey Decimal Classification being shared with the wider bibliographic world, showing the connection between the history of the Library of Congress and the history of American libraries. Posted in: Letters, Library of Congress History, Staff Favorites
Category: Native American History
Of Note: Geronimo: His Autograph and His Legacy June 15, 2023 Posted by: Lewis Wyman June is the birth month of Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division holds what it believes to be is an example of his autograph on an unattributed drawing of a horse, reminders of a challenging history and relationship with the federal government, including President Theodore Roosevelt. Posted in: Native American History, Of Note
Archive: July 2025 (5 Posts)
Made at the Library: The Declaration in Script and Print July 10, 2025 Posted by: Julie Miller On Thursday, July 17, at noon, the Library will host historian John Bidwell for a "Made at the Library" event to celebrate the recent publication of his book, The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America's Founding Document. Dr. Bidwell will discuss his book and the process of conducting research using the Library's collections. Posted in: Early America, Events
Archive: 2024 (56 Posts)
Marble Lost and Found: The Numidian Marble of the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress December 5, 2024 Posted by: Lewis Wyman This is a guest post by Clinton Drake, a reference librarian in the History & Genealogy Section of the Researcher Engagement & General Collections Division of the Library of Congress. “In the form of your building, color bears much the same relation as it does to the human form; it distinguishes the living from the dead,” … Posted in: Library of Congress History
Archive: March 2024 (4 Posts)
Florence Kelley and the Feminist Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s March 14, 2024 Posted by: Josh Levy In 1921, when the National Woman’s Party drafted a constitutional amendment declaring equal rights for men and women, one of the most formidable opponents of the amendment was a friend and ally in the suffrage movement. Florence Kelley, a leading reformer and head of the National Consumers’ League, feared the amendment would put hard-earned workplace protections in jeopardy.
Archive: September 2023 (5 Posts)
“Nothing that you do…can fail to interest me”: Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale Exchange Ideas on Women in Medicine September 14, 2023 Posted by: Elizabeth Novara Letters exchanged between two great women of medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale, demonstrate differing perspectives on women’s roles in the medical profession in the nineteenth century. Posted in: International History, Letters, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Archive: August 2023 (6 Posts)
Made at the Library: Scandal and Intrigue in 1920s America, Crooked with Nathan Masters August 22, 2023 Posted by: Lewis Wyman Join the Manuscript Division for a discussion of 1920s America with Nathan Masters at noon, August 23, as he discusses his new book: Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tales of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal. Posted in: Events, Labor, Law, Politics
Made at the Library: Scandal and Intrigue in 1920s America, Crooked with Nathan Masters | Unfolding History
When Attorney General Harry Daugherty secured a federal court injunction against a burgeoning nationwide railroad strike in September 1922, little did he realize the series of events he would set in motion.
Archive: July 2023 (5 Posts)
The Centennial of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Origins and Early Debates July 27, 2023 Posted by: Elizabeth Novara While much of the history of the Equal Rights Amendment is often focused on the 1970s, the discourse during the first few decades after the amendment’s introduction showcased the differing viewpoints held by labor feminists, African American women, and various women’s organizations at that time. Posted in: African American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Archive: June 2023 (6 Posts)
LGBTQ History in New Exhibit: “Join In!” June 1, 2023 Posted by: Ryan Reft For much of the twentieth century “coming out” carried with it a particular meaning associated with friendship, intimacy, and community. The new “Join In” exhibit explores how Americans have engaged in associational life in order “to achieve goals from simple fellowship to social change.” It also highlights the emergence of the LGBTQ community in the United States during the twentieth century.
Archive: February 2023 (4 Posts)
Intern Spotlight: The Legacy of Medgar Evers through the NAACP Records February 9, 2023 Posted by: Josh Levy Recently acquired primary sources within the NAACP Records reveal the devotion and courage of Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers and his work to eliminate racial violence, desegregate higher education and services, and secure voting rights. His tragic murder led Evers’s wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to build a legacy of civil rights and social justice activism of her own.
This Just In: Newly Processed Manuscript Collections
This guest post is by Manuscript Division historian Meg McAleer based in part on catalog records created by Manuscript Division catalogers Bennett Heggestad and Joy Orillo-Dotson and finding aids compiled by various archivists. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we want to share our love of history and offer this first-ever (at least in a while) quarterly listing of recently processed new collections and additions to existing collections. They are fresh off the archivists’ worktables.
If You Can’t Say Something Nice…: James and Lucretia Garfield on Abraham and Mary Lincoln
This guest post is by Manuscript Division historian and Civil War and Reconstruction specialist Michelle A. Krowl. On February 13, 1861, James A. Garfield was in Columbus, Ohio, serving Portage County in the Ohio State Senate. There he had the opportunity to meet Abraham Lincoln for the first time, when the president-elect stopped in Columbus on his train journey through the north before reaching Washington, D.C., for his March 4 inauguration.
Archive: May 2022 (6 Posts)
Viet Dinh, Anthony Lewis, and the Complexity of being Asian American in the Twentieth Century May 19, 2022 Posted by: Ryan Reft Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis. Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society
Live! at the Library: Manuscript Division Items on Display in Honor of Lincoln Memorial Centennial
Join the Manuscript Division for a special night of Live! at the Library on Thursday, May 19, from 5 pm to 8 pm in the Thomas Jefferson Building in honor of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. The Manuscript Division is participating in a new visitor experience at the Library of Congress, featuring extended public hours and programming on Thursday evenings.
Inside George S. Patton’s First War Diary
[Gen-as Lt. George S. Patton; full portrait, maturity], c1916, June 10, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. On March 11, 1916, two days after Pancho Villa’s deadly raid on Columbus, New Mexico, Lieutenant George S. Patton, Jr., made a tentative first entry in his earliest war diary.
Flying Manuscripts
Octave Chanute, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. between 1900 and 1910, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The majority of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division’s collections comprise the personal papers of individuals. These collections contain many different types of manuscripts, most typically correspondence (both incoming and copies of outgoing letters) diaries, notebooks, subject files, memoranda, reports, and other similar textual documents.
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