- Books right to your door (no, not Amazon). Vintage bookmobiles and the history of the traveling library! [via Atlas Obscura]
- Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast returns with new episodes June 21st! Grab your headphones and catch up on Season One. [via Sidedoor]
- A new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum project looks to preserve and digitize 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors. [via the Associated Press]
- Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton talks with Michael Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor, about solving climate change. [via Smithsonian Second Opinion]
- Stop and smell the flowers: a history of America’s gardens, from Smithsonian Gardens’ education and collections manager Cindy Brown. [via the New York Times]
- How NPR’s archival team is working to preserve decades of stories, documenting American history. [via Current.org]
- Here Comes the Sun--and George Harrison’s long lost guitar solo that never made the final cut. [via Open Culture]
- Take a video tour of the Smithsonian’s collection of whale bones with National Museum of Natural History paleobiologist Nick Pyenson. [via NPR]
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