Two historians discuss how research for a Smithsonian exhibit led to the story of 19th-century orator Mary E. Harper. [via the Conversation]
After conducting so many oral history interviews, a pair of labor historians finally get their own! [via NCPH]
The New York Times highlights the Wellcome Collection’s new standards for exhibit accessibility. [via Adam Rozan]
French archaeologists turned up hundreds of footprints, perhaps remnants of a Neanderthal daycare center. [via Gizmodo]
A journalist for the Washington Post asks why National Historic Sites dedicated to women's history have been so underappreciated. [via National Women’s History Alliance]
A new digital humanities initiative explores the lives of the colonial-era people of color interred in Connecticut's burial grounds. [via Hartford Courant]
Jillian and Paitoon have come home to the National Zoo! [via DCist]
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