Starting today you'll see a new feature that we hope can help you with some typed and templated text. The "Transcribe with OCR" button under the image viewer will allow you to run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on any page to gener...
In September, Library of Congress Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA) program interns Emily Alesia Poteat and Christopher Smothers made a call to action to volunteers seeking assistance in locating African American voice...
This week we're focusing our attention on the papers of Clara Barton, whose 201st birthday falls on December 25. From volunteering on the front lines of the Civil War as a nurse to founding the American Red Cross, Barton gave so much to the world. Th...
We’re excited to be releasing some new features to By the People today! We’ve been hard at work over the last few months on some design changes to existing pages and a brand new feature that will allow you to adjust images to aid transcri...
Are you ready for our next crowdsourced transcription campaign?Please join the Rare Book and Special Collection Division and the Copyright Office on October 7, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 ET for a lively (virtual!) discussion of early American copyright.This...
To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth 2021, we've just released over 11,000 brand new pages for transcription into our popular "Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents" campaign. This is our 3rd (and final) release into Herencia, so jump on in ...
You may have noticed a few changes to the By the People website recently! Here's a rundown of updates we've been able to make to the site this month, including some big tweaks to the profile page!By the People runs on Concordia, the open source trans...
There are some really hidden treasures in all these letters and indecipherable cursive. I hit one today that was just SO cool to discover I have to share. I used to write newspaper columns about this sort of thing.So I'm working on page 666 and...
This blog is by Library of Congress Manuscript Historian, Dr Julie MillerToday we're releasing a new By the People Campaign featuring handwritten receipts and interrogations of deserters--documents found in the George Washington Papers at the Library...
This blog is by Library of Congress Manuscript Historian, Dr Julie MillerJune 4, 2020The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress mostly document the life of George Washington. There’s nothing surprising about that. What is surprisin...
Hi all,To round out Poetry Month (April) we're proposing a Walt Whitman challenge! Read more about it on the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature blog.As part of this challenge we're joining with colleagues from the Learning and Innovation Offic...
Today we launched "Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents," featuring pages written in Spanish, Latin, and Catalan between 1300 and 1800. Our aim is to transcribe the documents word-for-word so that researchers can more easily discover these ...
"I felt I was lynched many times in mind and spirit. I grew up in a world of white power . . .”These words rock us with their hard truth. They were written by Rosa Parks sometime after her arrest in 1955 for defying a Montgomery, Alabama, bus d...
Update 2/3/20:Congratulations on completing another successful challenge! Together we moved the number of completed pages in the Alan Lomax Campaign from 1,732 to over 3,000 to celebrate Alan Lomax's 105th birthday. To thank volunteers, our partners ...
Update! Volunteers completed transcription of all of "This Hell-upon-earth of a prison", Samuel Gibson's diary and letter, in less than 36 hours!* We then challenged you to review "Disabled but not disheartened" and volunteers jumped in to mov...
Starting Tuesday, October 1 the staff of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division reference team will join your By the People community managers in moderating and responding to CROWD History Hub posts. We're piloting this approach to better levera...
We've got something new we think you're going to love! Today we're launching a new By the People campaign The man who recorded the world: On the road with Alan Lomax. The work of 20th-century folklorist Alan Lomax is the bedrock of our understanding ...
Many pages on By the People are written in languages other than English or contain words and phrases with accents, such as café or coup de théâtre. Writers such as Mary Church and Clara Barton spent time in Germany and France, and ...
A new challenge has arrived, volunteers! From August 12-19, help By the People complete 1,000 pages of "Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote". This new topic highlights the 70 year battle for women's right to vote, marking its’ 100th anniversary ...
Today, June 4, 2019, we're releasing the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna E. Dickinson for you to transcribe and review, in celebration of the centenary of women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th ...
Today By the People is launching the Activity Prototype! Test out a new way of browsing pages and finding something to transcribe or review. In this interface volunteers can:Sort and filter pages all in one placeChoose another page to read or work on...
