The Pen And Paper That Opened America’s Doors
By: Caleb Galaraga In the 1920s, Filipinos like me could easily travel to and from the United States. My country was a colony of America… Read More »The Pen And Paper That Opened America’s Doors
By: Caleb Galaraga In the 1920s, Filipinos like me could easily travel to and from the United States. My country was a colony of America… Read More »The Pen And Paper That Opened America’s Doors
By: Karen Gritz My first date with James Grover McDonald took place on a Thursday morning on the sixth floor of Butler Library at Columbia… Read More »Finding Nemo in the Archives
By: Emily Malcynsky To research a book about booze, you have to imbibe the soberest of materials: Temperance Society archives. Often an object of derision… Read More »Whining about wine, tallying teetotalers at New York City Temperance Society
By: Emlyn Cameron I approached a small desk in the anteroom of the Yale University Library’s archives section. I’d come to look at the papers… Read More »Very Conservative, With Self-Deprecating Humor
By: Kelsey Neubauer On Feb. 23, I walked into the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library slightly out of breath. I had… Read More »The woman who inspired nine archival boxes of women’s rights activism
By: Darkhan Umirbekov On the morning of December 17, 1986, around 3,000 students in Alma-Ata, then the capital of Kazakhstan, went to the Brezhnev Square to… Read More »Almaty 1986 Protests: Finding the Unpublished Testimony
By: Jaiveer Mariwala The Communist Party USA files at NYU are overwhelming in both size and the breadth of media they make available to researchers;… Read More »The Glorious Archives of the Communist Party USA
By: Kiley Roache The IUD is the most effective form of birth control, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In recent years,… Read More »Uncovering the IUD’s Downfall, One Court Record at a Time
By: Laura Castro Lindarte Long before the Muslim ban, the United States had a law banning immigration by homosexuals – even if that word didn’t… Read More »Love Doesn’t Conquer All