- Just in time for Thanksgiving, the National Archives has digitized and made available online 5 Thanksgiving related videos. [via InfoDocket]
- More action going on at the construction site of the National Museum of African American History and Culture as a 1920s 44-seat Southern Railway segregated train car and a 1930s guard tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary were lowered into place in the future museum. [via The Washinton Post]
- You've built it, now how useful is it to users . . . A look at the scholarly uses of digital collections. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Coinciding with the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is Jonathan Hennessey's new book, The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation, which presents the story of the Civil War in graphic novel form. [via Library of Congress Blog]
- What is a November without talking about moustaches and facial hair, the Archives' Courtney Bellizzi, explores this very topic over at the Smithsonian Collections Blog.
- That looks a little wrinkled . . . Learn about the process of unrolling, flattening, and conserving a piece of airplane fuselage fabric from World War I. [via AirSpace blog, NASM]
- Last weekend the Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted a hackathon to reimagine the digital interpretation in the museum's visible storage facility, for a look at the people's choice winner, see the video below. [via SAAM]
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