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  • V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    Accents, diacritics and languages other than English
    over 3 years ago
  • Abigail Shelton
    Introducing image filters and website design changes!
    5 months ago
  • Lauren Algee
    Happy 201st birthday, Clara Barton!
    5 months ago
  • Abigail Shelton
    AHHA Interns Thank YOU for Your Support in Locating African Americans in the Theodore Roosevelt Papers
    5 months ago
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  • Another French letter!

    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    Hello intrepid transcribers! Would anyone like to try their hand at improving this French letter from the "Organizing for Women’s Suffrage: The NAWSA Records" campaign? https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/organizing-for-womens-suffrage-th...
    • 13 Apr 2023
  • AHHA Interns Thank YOU for Your Support in Locating African Americans in the Theodore Roosevelt Papers

    Abigail Shelton
    Abigail Shelton
    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...
    • 20 Dec 2022
  • Happy 201st birthday, Clara Barton!

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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...
    • 19 Dec 2022
  • Introducing image filters and website design changes!

    Abigail Shelton
    Abigail Shelton
    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...
    • 13 Dec 2022
  • Library of Congress / U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer research event

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    Announcing a November 14 Webinar—History Unfolded: Online Research SprintOur colleagues in the Library of Congress Serial and Governement Publications Division are cohosting an online research sprint with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USH...
    • 4 Nov 2022
  • Help finish Civil War Soldiers campaign!

    Abigail Shelton
    Abigail Shelton
    The Civil War Soldiers: "Disabled but not disheartened" campaign officially completed in 2020 but we've added ~80 pages that were left out of the initial digitization process! We are reaching out to you, our engaged volunteers on History Hub, to ask ...
    • 24 May 2022
  • New Campaign! Early Copyright Title Pages

    Abigail Shelton
    Abigail Shelton
    With the help of our colleagues in the Rare Book Division and in consultation with the Copyright Office, By the People has launched its largest campaign to date! American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages celebrates some of the earliest books p...
    • 7 Oct 2021
  • Register now for a webinar celebrating our next upcoming campaign: The Early Copyright Title Pages

    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    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...
    • 24 Sep 2021
  • JUST LAUNCHED: Brand new materials in "Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents"

    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    Carlyn Grace Osborn
    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 ...
    • 21 Sep 2021
  • By the People site updates - homepage, profile, and navigation changes

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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...
    • 11 May 2021
  • Finding Really cool connections

    Charles Trentelman
    Charles Trentelman
    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...
    • 9 Feb 2021
  • Not Your Usual Redcoats: Notes on Interrogations of British Deserters in George Washington’s Papers

    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    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...
    • 24 Jun 2020
  • George Washington’s Washing and the Women Who Did It

    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    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...
    • 24 Jun 2020
  • Walt Whitman Challenge (and webinar) - April 30 to May 6!

    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    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...
    • 30 Apr 2020
  • Delve into Spanish history with Herencia

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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 ...
    • 25 Feb 2020
  • New Campaign Celebrating Rosa Parks

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    "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...
    • 3 Feb 2020
  • Happy birthday, Alan! -- January Lomax review challenge

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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 ...
    • 2 Jan 2020
  • Veteran's Day Challenge: "This Hell-Upon-Earth of a Prison" - UPDATE

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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...
    • 5 Nov 2019
  • Welcome LC Manuscript Division Reference Staff

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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...
    • 25 Sep 2019
  • New campaign - The man who recorded the world: On the road with Alan Lomax

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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 ...
    • 4 Sep 2019
  • Accents, diacritics and languages other than English

    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    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 ...
    • 30 Aug 2019
  • Women’s Suffrage Challenge: 1,000 Pages for 100 years

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    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 ...
    • 9 Aug 2019
  • Suffrage centenary! 100 years since women got the vote

    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    V. Van Hyning (formerly of By the People LOC)
    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 ...
    • 4 Jun 2019
  • Find your perfect page - try out the new Activity Prototype

    Elaine Kamlley
    Elaine Kamlley
    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...
    • 28 May 2019
  • Memorial Day review challenge

    Lauren Algee
    Lauren Algee
    Final Update: Our original 500-page review goal was well exceeded by Memorial Day morning!! Incredible work! We issued a stretch goal for the final day of 750 completed... and hit it out of the park too! Final totals as of 10am ET the following morni...
    • 20 May 2019
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