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 »
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Mary Jinglewski from Cottey College joined the Libraries for a six-week internship this summer. Jinglewski, hailing from the state of Georgia, spent her internship in the National Museum of American more »
In 1940, a star was born. Bugs Bunny appeared in A Wild Hare which also starred his ever-hunting co-star, Elmer Fudd. Over the past 69 years, Bugs has starred in more »
Recto: Abraham Woodside (born Philadelphia, PA, 1819; died Philadelphia, PA,1853) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Abraham Woodside was a prominent artist in Philadephia in the mid-nineteenth century. more »
Garrison-Wagner Company, Christmas Displays, 1955 If the summer heat is getting you down, why not close your eyes and try to conjure up a snowman and celebrate Christmas in July? 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 »
Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! You’ll never look at barbecue the same after reading Savage Barbecue: race, culture, and the invention of more »