Description: Birds of a feather flock together, especially if they are a pair of patriotic turkeys who took up residency at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.
Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.
Description: Looking at a recently acquired collection records created and maintained by former National Air and Space Museum director, Martin Harwit, that relate to the Enola Gay, its exhibition, and the controversy that ensued.
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.
Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.
Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the
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.
Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable
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