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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by helping history live on. Bring the words of the people who lived during the the American Revolution to life by participating in the Library of Congress's By the People volunteer transcription program. Drop in any time during the event, or come at 10:00 AM for […]
Join Arkansas TV, the Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library, and the Springdale Public Library for a free, hands-on Transcribe-a-Thon connected to the documentary series, The American Revolution, a film by by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt and the Library of Congress’s By the People project. The event will […]