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

As another summer intern cycle comes to a close, SIA Preservation intern, Rita Rushanan, discusses the preservation challenges found in the Doris M. Cochran Collection, which she had the chance to work with during her time at the Archives. 

The 1st African American female entomologist according to the Entomological Society of America, Dr. Margaret Collins, held professorships at Howard University, Florida A&M, and Federal City College, and was instrumental in building the termite collection at the National Museum of Natural History! #Groundbreaker 

A look at some of the early feedback received on the Smithsonian's pilot of a history game, The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches.

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

Independent scholar and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, researches the popularization science through the media, and has helped raise the profile of close to 1000 female scientists found in the collections at the Archives!  #Groundbreaker

Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.