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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the personal papers of Thomas T. Eckert (1825–1910). Left: [...]

William Henry Dorsey William Henry Dorsey was an African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia.  Like many others [...]

For everyone who has every collected books, stamps, coins and certainly manuscripts you remember the moment.  You make one purchase [...]

Lincoln's Inaugural Photograph - May 4, 1861 Iconic photo of Lincoln’s first inauguration. Now believed to be taken by [...]

UFO Documents released After decades of Freedom of Information requests, approximately 2,780 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents detailing [...]

Robert Caro (center), James Hicks and Debra Schmidt Bach of NY Historical Society. Jonah Markowitz/New York Times Robert [...]

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade, launched at the end of 2020. Joining with seven smaller, searchable databases, Enslaved.org [...]

The Library of Congress recently completed a major digitization effort, making collections of 23 U.S. presidents' papers available online [...]

Manuscript Digest –January 2021 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, [...]

Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft Michael J. Dabrishus “They are only sorry that we discovered what they did,” [...]