This week it seems like I’ve come across more interesting Historical Highlights than usual. If you want to learn about the Quaker view of history, Jewish women’s magazine, the history of the post office, or digitizing medieval manuscripts, read on.
Let’s begin with a thought-provoking article on the Quaker view of history plus a two-minute video showing some items from the Friends Historical Library in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (including a death mask, anti-slavery ABC book, and women’s suffrage pamphlet).
I was also intrigued by this look at American Jewish women’s magazines over the years. (It reminded me of this Archivist Interview with Melissa Caza of the Ontario Jewish Archives.)
I had no idea that a heat wave could reveal traces of 17th and 18th century gardens and buildings!
If you want to read the history of the United States Postal Service in one article, click here.
A street in Chicago has been renamed in honour of civil rights icon Ida B. Wells.
Don’t miss the pros and cons of looking at digitized manuscripts by a curator at the Bodleian Libraries (lots of fascinating images).
The Getty Museum just acquired “the most spectacular medieval Hebrew manuscript to become available in more than a century.”
