Next month the annual conference for the American Library Association comes to Washington DC. Four of the twenty branches of the Smithsonian Libraries will be having tours: the Botany-Horticulture Library, more »
Category: Art and Design
The annual Kentucky Derby is now held on the first Saturday in May; however, the first running of the Derby was on Monday, May 17, 1875. Today, we mark the more »
Obsession with being fit is not a phenomenon that appeared in the late 20th century. It has been a factor of human civilization since man’s most primitive hunter-gatherer period. The more »
Attending the American Library Association conference in June? Come join us on Monday, June 28, from 2-4 PM for an informal open house of the Smithsonian’s resources for American art more »
Happy Mother's Day from the Libraries. —Elizabeth Periale Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence, Carol Berkin. Mothering: ideology, experience, and agency, edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace more »
The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library has in its collection the photograph archive, The Pageant of America. This collection has also recently been digitized by The New York Public Library: In more »
It's May, and the carp are swimming through the skies of Japan! Well, not really . . . but close enough. In 1948, the Japanese government designated the fifth day more »