Completed Campaigns
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Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents
Started: 2020-02-25
Legal documents shed light on what societies and individuals value, and the struggles, hopes, and triumphs of people across the societal spectrum. You can[…]
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Rough Rider to Bull Moose: Letters to Theodore Roosevelt
Started: 2020-07-07
In this campaign of President Theodore Roosevelt's (1858-1919) incoming mail, discover what Roosevelt and his correspondents had to say about the issues of[…]
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Clara Barton: "Angel of the Battlefield"
Started: 2018-10-24
Nurse, educator, philanthropist, lecturer, and founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton (1821-1912) was one of the most prolific, active, and[…]
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Civil War Justice: The Correspondence of Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General
Started: 2022-06-07
Experience many of the most important issues and events of the Civil War era through the correspondence of Joseph Holt (1807-1894) while he served as a[…]
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Sheet Music of the Musical Theater
Started: 2023-09-27
This campaign features more than 16,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1880 and 1922. The piano-vocal selections come from musicals, revues and[…]
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Woman of the World: Political Thinker Hannah Arendt
Started: 2022-05-10
Political theorist and cultural critic Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from her native Germany and occupied France and came to the United States as a Jewish[…]
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"To Be Preserved": The Correspondence of James A. Garfield
Started: 2022-11-01
Although an assassin’s bullet shortened his presidential administration to just six months in 1881, James A. Garfield (1831-1881) left an impressive[…]
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By Design: Frederick Law Olmsted & Associates
Started: 2021-12-09
Frederick Law Olmsted is best known for designing iconic American greenspaces like Central Park in New York City. Many of the parks, estates, residential[…]
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Chicago 1977: People, Places, and Cultures
Started: 2024-09-24 Completed: 2024-10-27
Put your researcher hat on and trace the people, places, and cultures of bustling 1977 Chicago. Through transcribing field notes, photo and audio logs, and[…]
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“My great mass of papers”: Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt
Started: 2020-03-18 Completed: 2024-10-07
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was a prolific writer, especially of letters. This campaign includes outgoing correspondence from throughout his busy life[…]
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Walt Whitman
Started: 2019-04-24 Completed: 2024-10-02
2019 marked the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth and the poet remains at the center of cultural conversations today. The Whitman campaign includes[…]
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"Mr. President: What Will You Do for Woman Suffrage?": Woodrow Wilson’s File 89
Started: 2024-08-21 Completed: 2024-09-21
Discover what the American people thought about women’s suffrage by transcribing documents sent to President Woodrow Wilson between 1912 and 1921.[…]
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American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) Letters in the Progressive Era
Started: 2023-04-26 Completed: 2024-09-04
The rise of the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) coincided with widespread industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, all of which intersected[…]
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Leonard Bernstein: Writings By, From, and To
Started: 2023-12-12 Completed: 2024-08-09
Composer, conductor, teacher, and social activist, Leonard Bernstein, defined much of American music for the second half of the Twentieth Century. He[…]
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Yours Truly, Frederick Douglass
Started: 2024-02-14 Completed: 2024-05-31
Born in slavery, Frederick Douglass went on to become a leading American abolitionist, orator, writer, and social reformer. He was also a newspaper editor,[…]
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Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened"
Started: 2018-10-24 Completed: 2023-11-27
William Oland Bourne (1819-1901) was a reformer, poet, editor, and clergyman who organized left-hand penmanship competitions for Union soldiers who had[…]
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The Blackwells: An Extraordinary Family
Started: 2020-04-06 Completed: 2023-09-11
Discover the extraordinary history of one family’s commitment to social reform movements such as abolition, women’s suffrage, and temperance. Blackwell[…]
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American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages
Started: 2021-10-07 Completed: 2023-08-17
Discover endlessly fascinating items in this time capsule of title pages. Sent in by authors and publishers to register their books and other works, they[…]
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Historical Legal Reports from the Law Library of Congress
Started: 2021-04-28 Completed: 2023-07-31
Calling all students of history, government, law, public policy, international relations, and other interested members of the public – help us expand[…]
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“Such Eventful Times”: Women and the American Civil War
Started: 2023-03-08 Completed: 2023-05-14
Few women who lived through the American Civil War remained untouched by the conflict, and their letters, diaries, and other personal papers document how[…]
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We the Undersigned: Black South Carolinians Petition for Equal Rights, 1865
Started: 2023-03-29 Completed: 2023-04-05
Months after the Civil War ended in 1865, over 3,000 African American residents of South Carolina submitted a petition of fifty-four feet in length urging[…]
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Information and Disinformation: The World War II Rumor Project
Started: 2022-09-14 Completed: 2022-10-18
Information and disinformation are often transmitted through rumors, jokes, and ditties. In 1942 the United States government enlisted the Office of War[…]
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Organizing for Women’s Suffrage: The NAWSA Records
Started: 2020-08-11 Completed: 2022-10-06
In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s influence reached across the country, contributing to suffrage victories in the western[…]
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Brothers in Arms: The Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection
Started: 2022-02-01 Completed: 2022-03-27
The William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (ca. 500 items) spans the years 1773 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the[…]
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Ordinary Lives in George Washington’s Papers
Started: 2020-06-30 Completed: 2022-03-16
George Washington’s papers are about more than George Washington. Because the first president was a dedicated record-keeper, his papers are also a source[…]
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Theater for the People: Federal Theatre Project playbills
Started: 2022-01-11 Completed: 2022-03-11
Between 1935 and 1939, the Federal Theatre Project employed thousands of performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and stage technicians to produce[…]
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Artistic Trio: Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz letters to Henwar Rodakiewicz
Started: 2022-03-08 Completed: 2022-03-10
Between 1929 and 1947, painter Georgia O’Keeffe and her husband, the photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz, each corresponded separately to[…]
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Seers, Spiritualists, and the Spirit World: The experiments of Frederick Hockley
Started: 2020-10-26 Completed: 2021-09-06
British Spiritualist, accountant, and Freemason, Frederick Hockley (1808-1885) is often credited with being a leading influencer of the nineteenth-century[…]
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At the Library and in the Field: John and Alan Lomax Papers
Started: 2021-07-13 Completed: 2021-09-02
John A. Lomax, Sr., and his son Alan Lomax became stewards of a nascent Archive of American Folk-Song in September 1933. Their tenure lasted until Alan[…]
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Anna E. Dickinson Papers
Started: 2019-06-03 Completed: 2021-08-25
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932) was a lecturer, reformer, actress, and author. She was a teenage phenomenon on the antislavery lecture circuit, and[…]
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Down to Raisins: The Remaining Letters to Lincoln
Started: 2021-05-03 Completed: 2021-08-25
In 2020, Library of Congress staff transcribed specific campaigns within the By the People program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic building[…]
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Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women
Started: 2018-10-24 Completed: 2021-08-10
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) educator, women's rights advocate, and civil rights activist, was the founding president of the National Association of[…]
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James A. Garfield Diary: “His Confidential Friend”
Started: 2021-03-01 Completed: 2021-05-12
Although an assassin’s bullet shortened his presidential administration to just six months in 1881, James A. Garfield (1831-1881) left an impressive[…]
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Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music
Started: 2021-02-16 Completed: 2021-02-23
Historic sheet music offers a unique lens through which to explore the women’s suffrage movement. See both “pro-” and “anti-” suffrage sentiments and[…]
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War Diaries of George S. Patton
Started: 2020-05-11 Completed: 2021-01-22
In 2020, Library of Congress staff transcribed specific campaigns within the By the People program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic building[…]
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Letters to Lincoln
Started: 2018-10-24 Completed: 2020-07-09
Abraham Lincoln led a busy life as a laborer, politician, lawyer, father, husband, and the first Republican President. Find out what occupied his mind by[…]
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers
Started: 2019-06-04 Completed: 2020-06-15
Like her close collaborator Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), Elizabeth Cady Stanton is one of the best-known women in American history, principally[…]
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Susan B. Anthony Papers
Started: 2019-06-03 Completed: 2020-05-11
With the possible exception of her close collaborator Elizabeth Cady Stanton, no woman is more associated with the campaign for women's voting rights than[…]
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Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Started: 2019-06-03 Completed: 2020-04-25
The papers of suffragist, political strategist, and pacifist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) reflect her steadfast dedication to two major[…]
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Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
Started: 2020-02-04 Completed: 2020-03-21
Rosa Parks is best known for one courageous act on one extraordinary day: she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, in[…]
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The Man Who Recorded the World: On the Road with Alan Lomax
Started: 2019-09-04 Completed: 2020-01-15
Discover rich folk traditions from America and the Caribbean by transcribing the notebooks and letters of folklorist Alan Lomax and his collaborators.[…]
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"This Hell-upon-earth of a Prison": Samuel J. Gibson's Andersonville Diary
Started: 2019-11-06 Completed: 2019-11-14
Union soldier Samuel J. Gibson (1833-1878) was a prisoner of war at the notorious Andersonville Prison following his capture by Confederate soldiers in[…]
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Branch Rickey: Changing the Game
Started: 2018-10-24 Completed: 2019-02-22
Branch Rickey (1881-1965) helped break the color line in Major League Baseball by recruiting Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Explore his[…]