Heartbreak, Civil War, and 1,600+ New Pages: The Wing Diaries Continue
Two more John M.
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More than 1,500 new pages, and love is all around
Two Chicago courtships fifty years apart, settlement-house reformers, and a far-flung farm family. Pick a page and start transcribing.
This Fourth of July, Read the Revolution
Go beyond the Declaration this Fourth of July: transcribe Revolutionary-era manuscripts, explore America at 250, browse 2,200+ new pages, and send a vintage postcard from the archive.
1,500 new pages need your help
We’ve added a new batch of manuscripts to Newberry Transcribe, including the diaries of John M. Wing — journalist, publisher, traveler, book collector, and Newberry legend.
New Letters: Thomas Jefferson, Stanley, and Muriel
From presidential manuscripts to almost-daily courtship letters, these handwritten pages are ready to be unlocked.
Every Diary Has a Secret. Some Get Solved.
Two volunteers, one anonymous diary, and an identification 140 years in the making. Plus: 700 new pages just added to Newberry Transcribe, waiting to give up their secrets.
Help unlock 700 pages from the Sherwood Anderson papers
Cursive is making headlines again—not as nostalgia, but as a form of access.
"Fancy knowing nothing about yourself like that."
In a 1910 letter written from the Red Sea, a young Chicago woman relays a story she'd just heard. A shipwreck. A baby no one could identify. And a girl her own age who grew up not knowing who she was.
Welcome, new friends
It's National Volunteer Month. An 1842 letter has thoughts.
New year, new pages: Civil War diaries, recipes, and more await transcription
It's not too late for a New Year's resolution! Use your cursive skills to open up handwritten history -- one page at a time