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We're thrilled to be teaming up with Douglass Day again in 2025 to transcribe Library of Congress rare books! Mark your calendars for Feb. 14 and stay tuned for more Douglass Day 2025 details🥳

🚀 History in the making! We're teaming up with Library of Congress & LOC Crowdsourcing for Douglass Day 2025! What can our collective actions for Black history accomplish? Learn more in our latest newsletter! 🔗 Read now: douglassday.substack.com/p/douglass-day…

Volunteers have completed transcriptions for 250k pages of Theodore Roosevelt's Papers! To celebrate of this milestone (and Teddy's upcoming birthday), we've added a new batch of letters from 1913-1914 for all the Ted Heads out there. Dive in here: crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/roug…

Why do so many people transcribe Library of Congress collections? Read our article "Giving back, learning, relaxing, and having fun: personal motivations and impacts of a virtual volunteer transcription program" - out now in Intl Journal of Digital Humanities rdcu.be/dXXRs

Happy #NationalCatDay! Celebrate by reading about the many mentions of feline friends in the Papers of Clara Barton. Then go looking for some yourself! 😻blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/20…

Hey Teachers! 🎂 Join us for DOUGLASS DAY!🎂 On Feb 14 we are transcribing Black history with the LOC Crowdsourcing! Open to all! 💻 Free curriculum coming soon! 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! DouglassDay.org #NCTE #NCTE24 #NCSS #NCSS24

Today we're remembering our friend and colleague Danna Bell, a librarian and archivist extraordinaire who helped teachers explore the Library for more than two decades blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2024/… #edchat

We're asking you to transcribe and review Clara Barton this month in honor of her Dec. 25 birthday! Read how delving into Barton's papers connects to the humanitarian work of today in a new interview with American Red Cross staffer and volunteer transcriber Justin: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024…

We're proud to have one of our own, Division Communications Director Justin Kern, take on this unique volunteer experience bringing Clara Barton's words to life. For the last year and a half, Justin has spent hours transcribing dozens of documents and letters from our founder.

Hey friends at #AHA25! Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with LOC Crowdsourcing! See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!

Only 1 month until Douglass Day! Mark your calendars to transcribe African American history in Library of Congress rare books, manuscripts and more with Douglass Day. Check out classroom curricula, livestream plans, and sign up for the DD newsletter at douglassday.org!

There's been some talk this week about our friends at U.S. National Archives needing help from folks who can read cursive to transcribe historical documents. We could use your help with that, too! We launched our crowdsourcing transcription program By the People in fall 2018. 🧵

Coming up this month at the Library: Douglass Day, when history enthusiasts and the public can celebrate the extraordinary legacy of Frederick Douglass by joining a virtual transcribe-a-thon of rare books and manuscripts on African American history. newsroom.loc.gov/news/join-the-…

TRANSCRIBE-A-THON REMINDER: Join today's virtual transcribe-a-thon of rare Library books and manuscripts related to Black history in celebration of Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday. crowd.loc.gov/?loclr=twloc

Due to the high volume of participants this DDay, the Library of Congress website is experiencing issues. To mitigate this, please avoid using the “Jump to” transcription link and instead navigate directly through your web browser. Thank you for your patience! #DouglassDay

On this first day of Women’s History Month, let us honor and remember the brave and remarkable suffragettes who left us a living legacy of our right to vote. * 1917 photo of suffragettes is from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

One of the ways women's suffragists raised money for the movement was through community cookbooks! In celebration of Women's History Month, we pulled a few out of the stacks to show you. To see the digitized cookbooks in their entirety, visit oneclick.bio/librarycongress.

The newest Library of Congress exhibition is now open! “The Two Georges" brings together the collections of George Washington and King George III of Britain for the first time, allowing visitors to learn about their parallel lives in an age of revolution. loc.gov/exhibitions/tw…