DCist has published a guide to this weekend’s Library of Congress National Book Festival. [via DCist]
The DC History Center has reopened! [via infoDOCKET]
A blog post from the University of Florida Architecture Archives focuses on an underappreciated document genre: the napkin! [via UF Libraries]
The Washington Post profiles two public historians whose walking tours discuss the legacy of Charlottesville’s Confederate monuments. [via NCPH]
Education Week features a summer school program for history teachers that foregrounds Native perspectives in archival collections. [via Amy Katzel]
Archaeologists in British Columbia recently uncovered a shell in a thousand-year-old trash heap that could affect modern-day fisheries policy. [via Smithsonian]
...And here is another archaeological find from waste, this time from puma feces! [via Ars Technica]
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