The Library of Congress recently completed a major digitization effort, making collections of 23 U.S. presidents' papers available online for study. From left: Calvin Coolidge, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Harrison and Thomas Jefferson; behind: Jefferson's June 1776 draft of the Declaration of Independence (Illustration by Meilan Solly / [...]
Charles Darwin Notebooks Missing Charles Darwin photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881 Cambridge, England 2000 - Charles Darwin's Notebooks are removed from the stacks to be photographed. Two notebooks, including Darwin’s seminal 1837 Tree of Life sketch. The work is completed in November 2000. In January 2001 during [...]
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop https://www.facebook.com/AbrahamLincolnBookShop/ In-person browsing is in a state of suspended animation. No worries, Dan Weinberg brings his bookshop to the browser each Friday at 1 p.m. Central time. Take a Break With History interviews are streamed from Abraham Lincoln Book Shop’s Facebook page. Missed an episode? Come [...]
The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement are donating The Book of Lismore to University College Cork. Created in the late 15th century, this major medieval manuscript is from the golden age of Irish literature. It is one of the Great Books of Ireland. The Book of Lismore @artdaily [...]
l00th Anniversary Timed to coordinate with the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, The Library of Congress is doubling the library’s holdings related to the National Woman's Party. Already in the LOC's holdings are 200,000 items from the NWP. This valuable donation unites the remaining archive of 300,000 documents, photographs, [...]
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