Description: Surreal, doctored historic images by Nicolas Monterrat. [via Colossal]Europeana announced the winners of the 2017 Gif It Up competition! [via Europeana blog]Chinese researchers are starting the daunting task of digitizing more than 200,000 volumes of Mongolian books and documents, including a rare Mongolian version of the Tibetan Buddhist classic Kangyur from 1720. [via
Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
Description: Eva J. PellSmithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009640Eva J. Pell (1948- ), Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science from 2010 to 2014, cracked a glass ceiling by becoming the highest-ranking woman to serve as a science manager at the Smithsonian. She was born in New York City to immigrant parents who, from the start, encouraged her to pursue and value
Description: With the election only days away, we’re taking a look back at The Right to Vote at Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, 1972–74.
Description: Dr. Mireya Loza, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, researches labor history and her 1st book, "Defiant Braceros", won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Book Award.