#primarysources — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #primarysources, aggregated by home.social.
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The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/ -
The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/ -
The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/ -
The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/ -
The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/ -
Ms. Magazine: A Public Syllabus on Feminist Resistance Across U.S. History: Books, Films, Archives and Tools to Rethink America’s Origins. “The multimedia syllabus curated below spans the Revolutionary era and the long afterlife of feminist resistance—from the 19th century to the present. It includes works by series authors, books and articles, podcasts, films and television, primary-source […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/a-public-syllabus-on-feminist-resistance-across-u-s-history-books-films-archives-and-tools-to-rethink-americas-origins-ms-magazine/ -
Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/library-of-congress-resources-for-african-american-history-month-primary-source-sets/ -
Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/library-of-congress-resources-for-african-american-history-month-primary-source-sets/ -
Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/library-of-congress-resources-for-african-american-history-month-primary-source-sets/ -
Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/library-of-congress-resources-for-african-american-history-month-primary-source-sets/ -
Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/library-of-congress-resources-for-african-american-history-month-primary-source-sets/ -
you go on and off for years to improve your reading skills of #Kurrent / #Sütterlin, even trying to adopt the latter as your "secret" handwriting and then: first comes #AI and seems to make all of it redundant as #HTR improves incredibly; then you go to an exhibition at #DHMBerlin and discover that to read #OttovonBismarck (or his secretary) it was all useless in the first place as he seems to have written in a nice, simple #Lateinschrift
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Lafayette College: Largest known collection of Lafayette/Washington letters now available digitally . “After years of meticulous work, Special Collections & College Archives has completed the digitization of 201 letters written by the Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington between 1777 and 1792, one of the most important quill-pal relationships from early America. The digital collection can […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/09/lafayette-college-largest-known-collection-of-lafayette-washington-letters-now-available-digitally/ -
Mount Desert Islander: Epp and the Jesup unveil Creating Acadia National Park Research Archive. “After more than a decade of preparation, a digital collection of 30,000 primary documents related to the creation of Acadia National Park is now available to the public through the History Trust as the Creating Acadia National Park Research Archive.”
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WHYY: ‘The Revolutionary City’ gives everyone access to original documents of Philly residents living through the war. “The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories. A new online archive aims to bring tens of thousands of them to life. A group of Philadelphia-area historical organizations are pooling their archives into ‘The Revolutionary […]
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#NationalLibraryWeek (month, why not?) Day 18/Question of the Month: What does a #specialcollection worker do? They are #teachers who work with students, researchers, reporters, & board members, evangelizing the use of #primarysources across curricula and needs.
#Leadership #Processing #Exhibits #Cataloging #Supervision #Reference #Research #Outreach #Governance #DonorManagement #InformationLiteracy #Budgeting #CollectionDevelopment #Planning #Teaching