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By the People Bulletin

NEW! Transcribe Jane Johnston Schoolcraft papers 

Celebrate Women's History Month in March by transcribing the papers of Native American poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her family! Explore journal entries, draft essays and poems, manuscript magazines, Ojibwemowin-English vocabulary lists, and traditional stories translated and collected by Jane and her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. You'll learn about the Ojibwe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan in the nineteenth-century and about Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's contributions as a poet, storyteller, and chronicler of Ojibwe culture to the literary history of the United States.

For those here in Washington, DC or planning to visit in March or April, check out the small exhibit of physical items from the Schoolcraft papers in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress curated by Manuscript Division historian Barbara Bair. Learn more about how to visit the Library of Congress! 

Latest blog post about early American cookbooks 

Have you been loving the 18th-century cookbooks campaign? Curious about early American cooking, ingredients, AND the "long S"? Then you've come to the right place. Check out curator Ashley Rose Young's latest blog post pulled straight from the By the People cookbooks campaigns. 

Transcriptions recently returned to loc.gov

So far this year, our team has returned over 72,000 completed transcriptions from 3 campaigns back to their digital collections on the Library's main website where they can be easily searched and downloaded by researchers. Take a look and see what you can find! 

• Over 22,000 transcriptions added to the Joseph Holt papers. All of the Joseph Holt correspondence is now transcribed! 
• More than 21,000 transcribed pages to the Theodore Roosevelt papers
• 28,000+ transcriptions returned to the Sheet Music of Musical Theater collection 

 

All the best,

Abby, Carlyn, and Lauren