Masks and endless sanitizing again? What has the Smithsonian done during past pandemics? We’ll look back to the public health emergency in 1918.

Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series, titled Wonderful Women Wednesday. 

Explore this brief introduction to oral history based on best practices used in the Archives’ Smithsonian Oral History Program.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002.

Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell loved neurology and fishing.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

On National Hamburger Day, let's take a moment to relish the technological hamburger. 

Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to 1972. #Groundbreaker

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Smithsonian’s photographic laboratories and equipment from the 19^th century.