Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."
Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.
Description: With the running of the Boston Marathon this past week, be sure to check out Northeastern University's, "Our Marathon," a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. [via Ricc Ferrante, SIA]In the early days of my career as an archivist, I had the privilege of cataloging the papers of Grace Nicholson, a
Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.
Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.