John Lennon was assassinated on this day in 1980. The Libraries has quite a few books in its collections that focus on the former Beatle, peace activist and thoughtful musician John Lennon.
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Library has many items in its collections about this fateful day. We included some in our post, Pearl Harbor Day, last year. We’d like to share a few others worth mentioning from the collection this year, as well.
The Libraries has many titles in its collections on Walt Disney. Books on his studio’s feature films, the theme parks, biography, cartoons and animation, society and history, even African Art. A few titles below caught my eye, especially The Disneyization of society.
Sears shipped the components for 49,500 “kit-houses” in 15 years, providing middle-class Americans with good residential design at affordable prices. Buyers selected their dream house from the scores of models presented in Sears’ “Honor Bilt” catalogs. For historians, details of house design, such as the breakfast nook, and slogans, such as “Where women spend 2/3 of every day should be modern and bright,” are important records of American domestic life.
Join us TODAY for: Chuck Fischer, Creating a Pop-Up Book and The Enduring Appeal Of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, December 1, 2010, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
If you don’t have a white picket fence to dupe some neighborhood kids into painting, why not check out some books from the Libraries’ collections by and about pseudonymous birthday boy Mark Twain?
Yesterday, November 26, was National Cake Day. Now who thought that was a good idea, so close to Thanksgiving? Why not National Pie Day?