Today, January 6th, marks the 100th anniversary of New Mexico’s statehood. In 1848, the land was cededed to the United States by Mexico via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and more »
Category: Special Collections
Our oldest bound volume in the Smithsonian Libraries is from circa 1280. It gives me a thrill every day that I can actually take off the shelf and hold in more »
Welcome to our monthly Cooking from the Collections feature! This month, our intrepid recipe testers tried their hand at old fashioned sweets. The treats included Martha Washington’s recipe for sugar more »
Welcome to our monthly preservation feature! We're calling it "The Fix". What do you think? The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has hundreds of pamphlet bindings in its rare book collections more »
Would you like to see Galileo’s hand-writing?—I asked a visiting friend who came to see highlights of the Dibner Library in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries the other day. In the more »
The third Thursday in November marks the Great American Smokeout , a day set aside by the American Cancer Society to encourage smokers to stub out their last cigarettes. Let’s more »
The Smithsonian Libraries will hold the 2011 Dibner Library Lecture on Tuesday, December 6 at 5 p.m. in the Smithsonian Castle Commons. The lecture is free and open to the more »