Botanists at the University of Florida Herbarium have rediscovered hundreds of botanical watercolors by early 20th century artist Minna Fernald. Traces of Adelia Gates? [via Atlas Obscura]
Using the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Black Arts Council records as an example, archivist Jasmaine Talley highlights the need for archives to proactively collect materials from underrepresented groups. [via SAA]
HumIn Focus, a new web series by Penn State's Humanities Institute, poses questions from public humanities to current events. [via Penn State News]
The newly-launched Earth Biogenome Project intends to sequence the DNA of all 1.5 million eukaryotes on this planet. No biggie! [via Earth.com]
Just in time for Election Day, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has created interactive maps to visualize voting patterns in the early American republic. [via Lincoln Mullen]
If voting in the 18th and 19th century is too antiquated for you, how about voting in space!? [via NASM]
See Ella Fitzgerald's book collection on display at the National Museum of American History, part of Smithsonian Libraries’ new exhibition Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect! [via Smithsonian Libraries Unbound]
Relive the #SerendipityRun on Twitter, held yesterday at the Library of Congress. [via LC Blog]
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