Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. & American history.

Migratory birds know no borders, and neither should we this International Migratory Bird Day.

Curator of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Fath Davis Ruffins, is a specialist in ethnic imagery in popular culture, the history of advertising, and the origins of ethnic museums on the National Mall. #Groundbreaker

A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than the stiff and formal ones.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. & American history.

The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.

Dr. Brandon Fortune, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, organized the  first two Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitions and researches  women portraitists of the later nineteenth century. #Groundbreaker

Take a look at some career advice from the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Preservation Coordinator.