Description: Gorgeous rights-free illustrations of caterpillars from a German entomological by Christian Friedrich Vogel volume in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [via Public Domain Review]A look at the first multispecies experimental coral microcosm in the world installed at our National Museum of Natural History in 1980. [via Ocean Portal]You can explore over 30,000 NY Historic
Description: Librarians at the White House Historical Association have digitized 25,000 previously uncatalogued slides! [via CNN]In case you missed it, the blog, Missing Scientists' Faces, shared 28 days of African American female scientists during Black History Month. [via @MissingSciFaces]Check out some of the Digital Public Library of America's primary source sets for Women's History
Description: In anticipation of its Fall 2016 opening, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) did something beautiful. A film, by Stanley J. Nelson and Marcia Smith, was projected on NMAAHC's new building representing the history of African Americans in the U.S. You can check out all the images from the projection mapping on their Pinterest
Description: Cardboard architectural landmark cathouses; sacrilege or awesome? [via Design Boom] Prince's Paisley Park to become a museum. [via Hyperallergic]The bison is set to become America's national mammal. Learn how the Smithsonian helped save the American bison. [via Washington Post]A new online archive from the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project,
Description: Inauguration 2017 edition!Bowdoin College unveils rare photograph of President Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inauguration. [via AP]The University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center scores the "Mad Men" archive! [via Info Docket]Harriet Tubman is getting a National Historical Park! Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the
Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now
Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe
Description: “Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture," a new exhibit highlighting celebrity activist, Oprah Winfrey, opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]Archivists with The Obsidian Collection are digitizing and publishing newspapers that document the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow eras. [via Info
Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You
Description: The Hirshhorn and neighboring areas are enveloped in polka dots, and we love it. [via Washington Post]A new African American history treasure trove; digitized post-Civil War 'wanted ads' searching for love ones separated by slavery. [via NPR]11 African American inventors (including the Smithsonian's own Regent, Dr. Shirley Jackson) who changed the world. [via Mental Floss]The
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