Immersed in the historical documents of the Library of Congress, C.W. Goodyear found himself scouring through articles, notes, correspondences, and other works during his research on the Reconstruction Era and the Gilded Age. The young historian was searching for his subject among this endless treasure trove, though he wasn’t precisely certain about whom or on what he would be writing.
“It is easy to get lost in the Library of Congress,” Goodyear joked.
