- Seven red pandas were born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute! [via Smithsonian Science News]
- You never now what you'll find - A photograph acquired from an estate sale may have Vincent van Gogh amongst the people in it. [via Colossal]
- With funding from a Foundations planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the seven women’s colleges once known as the “Seven Sisters” launch College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education which brings together online digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs of women who attended the seven partner institutions. [via InfoDocket]
- Holding out till the end - The story of Confederate Brigadier General Chief Stand Watie and the final surrender of the Civil War. [via O Say Can You See? blog, NMAH]
- This is how we do it - A digital behind-the-scenes tour at how the Bentley Historical Library is working to ensure long-term access to their digital content. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Photographer Kenji Kawano has an exhibit of his photographs taken over the span of 40 years of time spent with the Navajo people at the Navajo Nation Museum. [via Lens, NYT]
- 15 California State Universities will colloaborate to digitize nearly 10,000 documents and more than 100 oral histories related to the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. [via InfoDocket]
- A wonderful resource will be available by the end of 2016 as 1.5 million slavery era documents will be digitized from The Freedman's Bureau through a collaborative project between the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. [via OpenCulture]
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