A Revolutionary Transcribe-a-Thon: Bringing History to Life Saturday, November 8 | 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Light lunch provided The Baxter County Library, in partnership with Arkansas PBS, the Arkansas State Library, and the Library of Congress, invites the public to celebrate history through a hands-on Transcribe-a-Thon experience. The event will begin with a sneak […]
Staff from the Library of Congress volunteer transcription program By the People will share about new projects that invite the public to engage deeply with the history of our country’s founding, from colonial life to the early Republic. Learn about how the program works, resources for putting on a transcribe-a-thon at your library, and the […]
Harding University partnered with Arkansas PBS and the Arkansas State Library to host a two-day event centered on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and early American history. The event featured a symposium at Harding University on March 13, a public Transcribe-a-Thon on March 14 to encourage engagement with Revolutionary-era documents, and a screening of "The American […]
Four partner libraries, including Jeffersonville Township Public Library, Harrison County Public Library, Knox County Public Library, and the Sons of the American Revolution Library, wil host an event to demonstrate how volunteers can get invoved with By the People, a transcription project sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Harding University partnered with Arkansas PBS and the Arkansas State Library to host a two-day event centered on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and early American history. The event featured a symposium at Harding University on March 13, a public Transcribe-a-Thon on March 14 to encourage engagement with Revolutionary-era documents, and a screening of "The American […]
Celebrate our Nations 250th Anniversary by transcribing period documents. Take a look at Colonial cookbooks at the Library of Congress from the middle of the 18th century, through the American Revolution, and on to the end of the century. It is during this crucial period that Amelia Simmons publishes the first cookbook intended specifically for […]