Results for "Road Reports Across America (Blog)"
Link Love: 10/25/2013
- Date: October 25, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
#AskAnArchivist 2021
- Date: October 14, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: You asked. We answered. And we had a whole lot of fun doing it. On October 13, 2021, Archives staff answered questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day 2021.
JAM: A Month of Musical Celebration
- Date: April 3, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: April is Jazz Appreciation Month. In addition to events across the globe, you can find jazz nuggets in various archives.
Dog Days at the Zoo, Part II
- Date: September 18, 2012
- Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.
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Ditched Once, Loved Still
- Date: January 5, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.
Link Love: 5/23/2014
- Date: May 23, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- 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.
How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981
- Date: December 1, 2016
- Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.
Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI
- Date: May 23, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.
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Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse
- Date: June 25, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.
Link Love: 5/6/2016
- Date: May 6, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A
A Race On the Wild Side
- Date: February 21, 2013
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Ride along as two young boys go on the adventure of lifetime, racing a stolen horse and buggy around Washington, D.C.