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

Celebrate National Trivia Day by testing your knowledge of the Smithsonian!

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art's Curator for Education, Deborah Stokes, doubled the number of students the museum reached with the distance learning program she developed.  #Groundbreaker

Our conservator invites cultural heritage disaster responders from federal agencies to a discussion on serving on detail with FEMA’s Heritage Emergency National Task Force.

Collection documents can sometimes have codes and cryptic text that make them challenging to decipher. Here’s a brief look at what we think about when facing this kind of challenge.

Dr. Nancy Bercaw, co-curator of the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit, National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw a slave cabin's move from Edisto Island, South Carolina to the Smithsonian: “I have to see it where it was...I felt like I needed to meet people as well.” #Groundbreaker

See how one collection of field books yielded a variety of challenges and treatments for the Archives’ conservators.