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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: 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.
Unfolding History
Stranded on a Passenger Ship During the Battle of Fort Sumter: A Confederate Surgeon’s Perspective July 31, 2025 Posted by: Rachel McNellis While on board a passenger ship anchored in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, Confederate surgeon Dr. Edward S. Aldrich witnessed the Battle of Fort Sumter and encountered the USRC Harriet Lane. His personal account is detailed in a family letter in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.
Category: African American History
George Washington’s Uncle Writes Home: The Letterbook of Joseph Ball September 19, 2024 Posted by: Julie Miller Joseph Ball’s mid-eighteenth century letters, written from his home near London to his family in Virginia, helped maintain connections between Britain and the American colonies. They also show how the institution of slavery operated in the world where George Washington was born. Posted in: African American History, Early America, Letters
Archive: August 2026 (4 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.
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
Board Appeal: Curating Environmental Game Collections for the Public
In 2022, when I held the Haas Curatorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Science History Institute Library and Museum (SHI) in Philadelphia, I was tasked with finding objects that would illustrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Clean Water Act for a community program. The assignment reminded me that I had seen a reference to a board game about clean water in a list of recommended teaching materials from the early 1970s. I set off to find a copy of the game to use for the program.
Archive: June 2025 (4 Posts)
A Historian at War: The Unpublished Guadalcanal Diaries of Herbert Christian Laing Merillat June 20, 2025 Posted by: Sherri Sheu In 1982, former United States Marine Corps historian H. C. L. Merillat published a history of the Guadalcanal Campaign based largely on his wartime diaries, but he left out entries that showed him struggling with his role in the military and in the war.
Perspective | The hidden history that explains why Team USA is overwhelmingly White
As the nation watches the U.S. Olympic team compete in Beijing, it’s hard to ignore that the team is unrepresentative of the United States as a whole — even as Black athletes won medals, with speedskater Erin Jackson capturing gold and bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor winning silver. In 2018, the U.S. Olympic team was roughly 92 percent White. Of the 20 athletes of color who competed, 12 represented either figure skating or bobsledding.
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