Results for "Indian American Story: Blog for the Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project (Blog)"
Link Love: 6/8/2018
- Date: June 8, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- 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
Link Love: 2/10/2017
- Date: February 10, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Public domain infographics of African Americans in the 1900s by W. E. B. Du Bois. [via Public Domain Review]Big open cultural heritage news - the Met has released 375k public domain collections for free and unrestricted use! [via ARTNEWS]A world map of archives (and we're on the map!) [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig]Some guidance on managing your digital photos and video. [via
Link Love: 10/19/2018
- Date: October 19, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old
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SIA Acc. 16-069, National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) Office of the Director, Administrative Records, 1984-2014
- Date: 1984 1984-2014
- Creator: National Museum of African American History and Culture. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Link Love: 03/19/2021
- Date: March 19, 2021
- Description: 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.
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Effie Kapsalis
- Date: March 18, 2011
- Description: Effie Kapsalis, Chief of Content & Communications Strategy
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Gwyneira Isaac
- Date: October 21, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: 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.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: October 15, 2019
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.
Link Love: 1/5/2018
- Date: January 5, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: New Year's Edition!Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer used a spy camera to capture 19th-century Oslo street scenes! [via Colossal]Let us help you achieve some of your archiving New Year's resolutions; action planning for personal archiving, organizing digital photos, organizing email, and preparing for tax season!9 innovators in the fields of technology, health, education and more
Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: August 6, 2019
- Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.
Link Love: 7/27/2012
- Date: July 27, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory
- Date: March 7, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.