The Chinese like to compare a rabbit to the moon also because the rabbit’s lip is similar in shape to the crescent moon
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
The Libraries would like to highlight some more new and diverse titles that have been added recently to the National Museum of American History Library.
The Smithsonian Research Online program recently surpassed the mark of 10,000 publications in the Digital Repository. This collection of digital publications by Smithsonian staff represents a broad review of research more »
The Libraries exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn is still on display in the National Museum of American History. Stop by and see some fabulous examples of pop-up and movable books, from the 1600s to today.
The National Air and Space Museum Library would like to share some new books for the month of January 2011
Hundreds of books have been written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States and the only person elected to the presidency four times.
The king of hobbies, stamp collecting, began soon after the first appearance of the postage stamp in 1840 Victorian England. And as their use spread quickly to other nations the public became fascinated with the beauty of their designs and the diversity available from places many had never heard of before.