Chief curator of the National Postal Museum’s history department, Nancy Pope has been a prolific writer popularizing postal history with fascinating stories and exhibits on zip codes, postal transportation, and postal mascots & workers!  #Groundbreaker

We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers in the winter of 2018.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.

Meet our newest staff member, RoseMaria Estevez!

Curator of Latino studies, Dr. Arianna Curtis, National Museum of African American History and Culture, studies the intersection of African American and Latino communities in the U.S. and won the Sustainable Community Preservation Award at the 2016 Afro-Latino Festival. #Groundbreaker

We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.