Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! Dreading the beginning of the school year? School House to White House: the education of the presidents more »
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The periodic table of the elements. It is every chemist's cheat sheet and an indispensable fixture in the life of every school's science lab. Despite its ubiquity, did you ever more »
The first US waffle iron was patented in 1869. Since then various companies have manufactured waffle irons. In the Universal Electric Housewares catalog from 1950, Landers, Frary & Clark advertised the more »
While it may not be a bicentennial, the year 2009 marks what would have been the 175th birthday of August Weismann, a German biologist and one of the founders of more »
Marcia Adams is the Assistant Director of Technical Services, a division which comprises five centralized departments of the Libraries. Technical Services Division staff perform services for all twenty branches as more »
The Libraries has a very well-developed exchange program, in which we receive print serials from organizations in the U.S. and abroad in return for their receipt of our Smithsonian Contributions more »
As summer wanes, maybe it's time to take the family for a relaxing stroll on the beach…—Elizabeth Periale Le Moniteur de la mode