Posts tagged with: African American history
Link Love: 9/22/2017
- Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin]
- Save the date for Museum Day Live 9/23/17 where museums across the country will have free admission! [via Baltimore Sun]
- An intimate portrait of what it's like to do research in the NY Public Library Manuscript and Archives Division. [via Village Voice]
- Library of Congress just launched LC Labs, "a space for open experimentation with Library digital collections." [via LOC]
- Germany has launched a website to help prevent illegal art trafficking. [via Art Newspaper]
- The Smithsonian Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt, has put the majority of their collection online from a rapid digitization project! [via Open Culture]
Link Love: 9/8/2017
- New genealogy/history resource online: heartbreaking advertisements by former slaves searching for family - "Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery." [via WAPO]
- A visualization of who survived the sinking of the Titanic, brought to you by Wikidata. [via Wikidata]
- In honor of NASA's Voyager I probe's 40th anniversary, Star Trek's William Shatner transmitted a message to the spacecraft. [via Space.com]
- Looking for a new podcast? A list of 11 art and culture podcasts to check out now. [via Hyperallergic]
- Still thinking about the eclipse? Here's a panoramic view of the full eclipse by photographer Stephane Vetter. [via Colossal]
- The history of what women wear to bed. [via The Pool]
- Frida Kahlo's "secret" wardrobe will be on exhibit in 2018 at the V&A. The clothing comes from a cupboard that wasn't opened until 2004, 50 years after she died. [via The Art Newspaper]
- The history of technicolor film now online, compliments of the George Eastman House. [via Hyperallergic]
- A new app for Alexa, Museum Voice, bringing you culture events in the UK (try it and let the developers know what you think). [via Facebook]
- A Smithsonian team printed a new hornbill for the National Zoo's Abyssinian ground hornbill, Karl, so he can once again feed himself! [via Digital Trends]
Link Love: 9/1/2017
- Memorable animated gifs for the directionally-challenged! [via Atlas Obscura]
- Can't wait for Spring 2019 to see the next GoT? A neural network has written the first chapter. [via Motherboard]
- The history of toys that have enduring popularity (think Slinky and time will tell on the fidget spinner). [via Inc.]
- The British Library is considering a single digital portal. [via Carnegie Trust]
- Cultural heritage institutions affected by Hurricane Harvey are encouraged to contact the National Heritage Responders hotline (202-661-8068) if you need help.
- Korean astronomers tracked the explosion of a 15th-century nova through archival documents. [via WAPO]
- The Library of Congress released its Recommended Formats Statement (and we helped out with the website preservation standards). [via LOC]
- DC Public Library is celebrating Banned Book Week (Sept. 24-30) by hiding 50 "provacative books" around the city! [via WAPO]
- Leo Hershkowitz, known as the "archives scavenger", found records for Abraham Lincoln's funeral and Alexander Hamilton's murder. [via NY Times]
- Speaking of Hamilton, the Library of Congress has published their records of Hamilton online. [via NPR]
- Are death scenes less-scary in miniature? You'll soon be able to find out at our Smithsonian American Art Museum. [via WAPO]
- A new video series from our National Museum of African American History and Culture on groundbreaking African American women. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
Link Love: 8/25/2017
- 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]
- And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]
- University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The Wilmington Daily Record, which were burned in the Wilmington Race Riot. [via Star News]
- An Islamic extremist has been charged with destruction of cultural heritage property in Timbuktu, Mali. [via Art Newspaper]
- A secret Yayoi Kusama museum? Opens October 1. [via artnet]
- Now that's long-term preservation; encoding a gif into DNA. [via BBC News]
- Patchwork maps showing the regional embroidery techniques of India and Pakistan. [via Open Culture]
- A nice round-up of 10 things to know about museum exhibit installation from our National Museum of American History. [via O Say Can You See]
- Don't throw out those eclipse glasses, you can donate them to Astronomers Without Borders! [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- And a lovely video of August 21st's eclipse from the U.S. Department of Interior:
Awesome video of #Eclipse2017 just outside of Craters of the Moon in #Idaho #SolarEclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/xFmczDip1A
— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) August 21, 2017
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