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    Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

    • Date: April 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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  3. Link Love: 11/20/15

    • Date: November 20, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • 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

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  5. Wiki Loves Monuments

    Link Love: 9/16/2016

    • Date: September 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Lend a hand to "Wiki Loves Monuments" to improve Wikipedia articles about U.S. historic sites. The Banned Book Handbook, 2016 edition. [via Info Docket]Didn't get tickets to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum opening? You can still attend the surrounding festival featuring The Roots and Public Enemy! [via NY Times]The first

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  7. Black and white photo of 3 seated women and 1 man at reception holding plates and drinking Coca Cola.

    Link Love: 2/3/2017

    • Date: February 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of

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  9. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

    Link Love: 10/13/2017

    • Date: October 13, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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  11. Carte Geologique De L'Europe.

    Link Love: 6/24/2016

    • Date: June 24, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will

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  13. A yellow-tinted catalog page showing two women in front of painted backgrounds, one of a nature scene, one of a shipdeck with a ship on water in the background.

    Link Love: 7/20/2018

    • Date: July 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Old school filters. [via Smithsonian Libraries]Progress is being made to find the burned remnants of the last slave ship to reach U.S. soil. [via National Geographic]Meet the Library of Congress reference librarian who helps people research their African American genealogy. [via LOC]You can help transcribe the papers of Civil Rights figure, Julian Bond, with the University of

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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  17. Graphic with black & white photo of Malone alongside text description of her achievements in African American hair products.

    Link Love: 3/24/2017

    • Date: March 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Meet the women behind African American hair care! [via #HiddenHerstory]MIT Libraries is kicking off the "Women in Science and Engineering@MIT" archival initiative to improve the representation of women in their archives. [via MIT Libraries]Know someone with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities? Tell them about Morning at the Museum, a program that provides early

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  19. a progression of 3 images of a brightly lit, round field of light with a dark hole in the middle and a ray of light projecting upwards.

    Link Love: 3/16/2018

    • Date: March 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Apparently black holes are not a one-way vortex we assumed. This image from NASA demonstrates objects projecting out of black holes! [via The Space Academy]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will acquire records of The Academy of Washington, D.C., an LGBT organization that produced nationally-recognized drag pageants. [via Washington Blade]You can vote on

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  21. printed page with 12 pointed star color spectrum, as well as a bar of colors below.

    Link Love: 6/1/2018

    • Date: June 1, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A graphic designer's delight — a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt explores color perception. [via Smithsonian Libraries]33 museums from 7 countries, including our own Smithsonian Archives of American Art, have produced the largest collection of Frida Kahlo art and ephemera with Google Arts & Culture. [via Remezcla]A key figure in LGBQT activism who organized the first pride

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  23. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

    Link Love: 9/9/2016

    • Date: September 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer

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