{"id":32,"date":"2022-11-20T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:02:19","slug":"3rd-week-of-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/2022\/11\/20\/3rd-week-of-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Week of November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/about\/news\/national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-debuts-freedmens-bureau-search\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">NMAAHC Debuts Freedmen\u2019s Bureau Search Portal<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Access to the records of the Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau, created by Congress during Reconstruction to support newly emancipated African Americans, providing a vital source of Black history and genealogy in the 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1-1024x574.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the search portal page\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/horizon-freedmens-static-1-1.png 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finebooksmagazine.com\/blog\/student-book-collecting-prizes-dates-and-details\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Student Book Collecting Prizes: Dates and details<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Links to a number of book collecting competitions for students, including Harvard&#8217;s own Hofer Prize.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/pile-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/pile-books.jpg\" alt=\"Stack of old books\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/pile-books.jpg 782w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/pile-books-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/pile-books-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/mayer-medusae\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer\u2019s Medusae of the World (1910) <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Public Domain Review highlights a beautifully illustrated work on jellyfish, available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/\">Biodiversity Heritage Library<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of an orange and yellow jellyfish\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/mayer-lead-5.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/preservation\/2022\/11\/lilliputian-diary-pt1\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Of No Small Account: A Lilliputian-sized Diary from World War I<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">As a young printer drafted into World War I in 1917, Irving Greenwald knew something about making the most of a page. He did just that to an astonishing degree in this 5 inch-high pocket diary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"Diary with extremely small handwriting, held open with a white string weight\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/greenwald1.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unl.edu\/newsrooms\/today\/article\/new-initiative-will-make-cathers-manuscripts-available-online\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">New initiative will make Cather\u2019s manuscripts available online<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">An NEH grant will enable the Willa Cather Archive to digitize 4,000 pages of manuscripts from it&#8217;s holdings and those of 19 other repositories.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/190929_Cather_006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/190929_Cather_006.jpg\" alt=\"Several pages of typescript with manuscript corrections\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/190929_Cather_006.jpg 960w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/190929_Cather_006-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/files\/2022\/11\/190929_Cather_006-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMAAHC Debuts Freedmen\u2019s Bureau Search Portal Access to the records of the Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau, created by Congress during Reconstruction to support newly emancipated African Americans, providing a vital source of Black history and genealogy in the 19th century. &nbsp; Student Book Collecting Prizes: Dates and details Links to a number of book collecting competitions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/roundup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}