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 »
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Ever wonder what a wedding in the past might have been like? Art and Decoration in Crepe and Tissue Paper by Dennison Manufacturing Co. gives us a view into 1917 more »
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 »
The Libraries will open its new exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn in the National Museum of American History June 14. The exhibition features the art of paper more »
The idea of state flowers first occurred in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where women's groups had decorated their state exhibits with representative flowers. During the fair, 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 »