Jefferson's Writing Desk, 1991, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Image no. 91-3681

Link Love: 7/5/2019

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
July 5, 2019, by Deborah Shapiro

You can fund the conservation of the C&O Canal by staying in a restored lockhouse! [via WAMU]

Historians name fifteen moments from American history that haven’t gotten enough attention. [via Keisha N. Blain] 

Smithsonian features the Indiana Medical History Museum’s “Rehumanizing the Specimens” project.  [via Smithsonian]

Thanks to Boaty McBoatface, we now know more about the causes of climate change. [via Science History Institute]

Jessie Kratz, National Archives Historian, discusses the “secret map” on the back of the Declaration of Independence. [via National Archives]

Jefferson's Writing Desk, by Unknown, c. 1991, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 91-3681.

Decades of records kept by Chicago city clerk John Marcin were discovered (yes...discovered!) in his long-unoccupied office. [via Block Club Chicago]

Maureen Wanjiku Kamau of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute explains how poop is used to help save the rhinos. [via National Zoo]

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