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A color print of a view of Baltimore from across the harbor showing ships, wharves with the city in the background.

Baltimore’s Seaport in the Age of Revolution is Revealed in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Posted by: Julie Miller

Made at the Library: The Declaration in Script and Print

Posted by: Julie Miller

Kewpie-style babies marching with fife and drum, holding yellow flag that reads "Votes for Women"

“The Spirit of ’76” Marches On: Inspiring the Fight for Women’s Equality

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

A black and white etching of an enclosed stage coach.

Margaret Hunter Hall: Reluctant Traveler to the Antebellum United States

Posted by: Julie Miller

Monochrome sketch of soldiers walking along jungle path

A Historian at War: The Unpublished Guadalcanal Diaries of Herbert Christian Laing Merillat

Posted by: Josh Levy

Published engraved image showing a crowd observing the balloon "Intrepid," leaving the ground in the distance.

Nothing Happens in Washington without a Purchase Order: William J. Rhees and Thaddeus Lowe’s Balloons, 1861

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

Scrap of paper with handwriting in pen and pencil

More Walt Whitman Manuscripts Ready for Crowdsourced Transcription

Posted by: Josh Levy

Mary Oliver as preteen squatting near stream, looking backward at camera.

Mary Oliver: Poet of the Natural World: A Library of Congress Exhibit Celebrates Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver

Posted by: Julie Miller

Large family group posed on a beach, all dressed in white.

Of Note: Family, Fashion, and Filipino American History

Posted by: Julie Miller