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October 11

Private Voices: a unique collection of American Civil War letters

I came across a new-to-me archive of Civil War letters recently. The project, “Corpus of American Civil War Letters,” under...

October 10

Have you ever been frustrated that a book you were hoping would be digitized was just past the 1923 cutoff...

June 24

Two articles showed up in the news this week involving a document found in the National Archives regarding President...

March 2

The Library of Congress’ website, www.loc.gov, is a glorious and wonderful collection of documents, data, photos, newspapers, recordings and more,...

February 25

Roughly 7,500 manuscript items and 2,500 photographs are available in the Library of Congress’s online offering of Rosa Parks’s archive. See...

February 24

“Peek Inside the Grisly, Salacious Case Files of NYC’s Head Coroner in the Early 1900s” Source: Peek Inside the Grisly,...