How would a Victorian lass keep cool in the dog days of August? Possibly with a summer gown, from The Woman's Book of 1894. This image can be also be more »
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How many people can say they’ve trekked Europe in a VW van – with a one year old? An adventurous spirit, Libraries' intern Laurence Cook can make that claim! In more »
2009 is the centennial year of the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossil in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. In 1909, Charles Walcott—the fourth secretary of the more »
On June 26 twenty-three Catholic University of America (CUA) library program students and two instructors, Diane Schnuurpusch and Michele Masias, came to the National Museum of American History and the more »
Amelia Earhart, The fun of it : random records of my own flying and of women in aviation, 1932 Amelia Earhart was born today in 1897. A famed aviator, pioneer 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 »