19th Century – United Yam

Are Both Lue Elizondo and AARO Sincere in Their Reports About UAPs? #Paranormal

unitedyam September 27, 2024

NewsNation and the New York Post reported that Lue Elizondo, a former intelligence officer for the Department of Defense, alleges that “The United States has been involved in the recovery of objects, vehicles of unknown origin that are neither from our country or any other foreign country that we’re aware of.” He claims that one of the two spacecraft in possession of the Department of Defense is from the crash site of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. In his interview with NewsNation, Elizondo stated: “We as a nation have been interested in not only the vehicles themselves but the occupants…

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“The Grand Facts of Stratigraphy”: Ives’s Strata Map

unitedyam September 10, 2024

This post explores a unique geologic map. Ives’s strata map, made up of 10 plates representing different geologic periods, was designed as a tool for instruction in schools and colleges in the late 19th century.

Urban Planning Legends: City Design Makeovers before the Olympics

unitedyam August 3, 2024

Excitement about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is sweeping our own nation’s capital, as it is in so many places around the world. Here at the Library of Congress, we’re certainly marking the occasion. The Informal Learning Office (ILO) recently hosted an Olympics-themed Family Day, and afterward they published a blog post about it where …

Reflections on the West African Collections

unitedyam July 28, 2024

Miller Jaquet, Junior Fellow in the Geography and Map Division, explores the cartography of West Africa and what maps reveal about power, politics, and how we got HERE.

Experiencing Maps in “Collecting Memories”

unitedyam June 20, 2024

Learn more about the maps on display at the new experiential exhibition at the Library of Congress.

Discovering Voltairine de Cleyre, Neglected Poet of American Radicalism

unitedyam June 9, 2024

Published in 1978, Paul Avrich’s “An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre” was the first substantial biography of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), an influential member of the American labor movement at the turn of the 20th century. Donated to the Library of Congress in 1986, the biography refers to de Cleyre as “one of the most interesting if neglected figures in the history of American radicalism.”