Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.
Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.
Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific
Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a
Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.
Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.
Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,
Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."