This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Research and Reference Services Division. December is a month of...
Read moreMy Job at the Library: Researching African-American Genealogy
Ahmed Johnson is a local history and genealogy reference librarian in the Library’s Main Reading Room and a specialist in African-American history. A...
Read moreInquiring Minds: Uncovering the Many Meanings of Slave Narratives
Carley Reinhard first encountered stories of slave capture in early 2017 in Professor Stephanie Shaw’s African-American history course at Ohio State University...
Read moreHarriet Tubman: Teaming Up to Acquire a Rare Photograph
This post draws on the article “Pulling Together for Tubman,” published in the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of Congress Magazine. The...
Read moreNew Online: Rare Photo of Harriet Tubman Preserved for Future Generations
This post draws on the article “Building Black History: A New View of Tubman,” published in the January–February issue of LCM, the Library of...
Read moreAfrican-American History Month: Making a Way Out of No Way
This is a guest post by Beverly W. Brannan, curator of photography in the Prints and Photographs Division. When the Prints and Photographs Division acquired the...
Read moreStory of Newport family begins nearly 200 years ago in Wayne County
About 1812, when Great Britain went to war for the second time with the United States, farmer William Newport left his home in Connecticut and settled in Sodus Point...
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