Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! You’ll never look at barbecue the same after reading Savage Barbecue: race, culture, and the invention of more »
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In June, the Smithsonian Enterprises Product Development and Licensing team launched the first official Smithsonian store on CafePress.com. If you're not familiar with Cafe Press, it's an online shop that more »
In terms of astronomy, things were never the same after the year 1609. Galileo Galilei got his hands on a telescope and made his watershed observations, which challenged views of more »
Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry messenger], 1610, f10 verso, two moons On July 20, 1969, two members of the Apollo more »
Lewton, Frederick L., The Servant in the House: A Brief History of the Sewing Machine, 1930. "Illustration of Singer Sewing Machine Published in 1853." On this day in history—July 17th—the more »
In this day in history—July 15—we commemorate the anniversary of the first flight of the Boeing 707 prototype, nicknamed the "Dash 80," which took place in 1954. Its maiden flight more »
Happy Bastille Day! Lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney, Travels through the south of France and in the interior of the provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the years 1807 and 1808, 1814, more »