Announcement of Final Release of the Hannah Arendt Papers on American Memory

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Hannah Arendt Papers available on American Memory Web site

The Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, in conjunction with
its American Memory historical collections, presents a digital version
of the manuscript collection relating to the life and activities of
the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt
(1906-1975), whose papers are a principal source for the study of
modern intellectual life.

The papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book
manuscripts, transcripts of the Adolf Eichmann trial proceedings,
notes, and printed matter pertaining to Arendt's writings and academic
career. Among these are correspondence with many of the leading
literary and political figures of the twentieth century, including W.
H. Auden, Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Thomas Mann, Dwight Macdonald,
Eric Voegelin, and Norman Podhoretz.  The collection also contains
various drafts of Arendt's published work, in particular The Origins
of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), and the
controversial and groundbreaking Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).

The entire collection has been digitized and is available in its
entirety to researchers in reading rooms at the Library of Congress,
the New School University in New York City, and the Hannah Arendt
Center at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Selected materials
from the collection are also available for public access on the
Internet.

The digitization of the Hannah Arendt Papers is made possible through
the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Users can access this collection at the following url:
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/>

Please direct any questions to NDLPCOLL at LOC.GOV