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Five Things You Didn’t Realize Were Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Since 1965, the agency has bestowed more than 63,000 humanities-related grants
Celebrate Sunshine Week By Transcribing Once Top-Secret Documents
The National Archives wants you…to make documents more accessible to future generations
375,000 Images From the Met Are Now Yours for the Taking
It’s a milestone for one of the world's most significant art collections
#ColorOurCollections Is Back, Turning Your Favorite Cultural Institutions Into Coloring Books
In its second year, it's more vibrant than ever
Over 12 Million Pages of CIA Documents Are Now Accessible Online
Coups, clairvoyants, invisible ink
Why Do Flashing Images Cause Seizures?
For people with epilepsy, a flashing screen can be more than a passing annoyance
New Database Helps Families ID People Who Died Crossing the Border
<i>I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre</i> offers a devastating glimpse of those who are gone—and a glimmer of hope to those who want to find them
The Library of Congress Is Putting Its Map Collection on the Map
A new partnership with the Digital Public Library of America will put three major LOC map collections online
Help the BBC Close Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
The Beeb’s hosting an edit-a-thon to improve the online encylopedia’s coverage of women
From the Telegram to Twitter, How Presidents Make Contact With Foreign Leaders
Does faster communication cause more problems than it solves?
Alan Turing’s World War II Headquarters Will Once Again House Codebreakers
Bletchley Park is being revived as a cybersecurity training center
Google Makes Ledger Art to Celebrate Legendary Native American Author James Welch
In an exclusive interview with Smithsonian.com, artist Sophie Diao talks about what inspired today's Google Doodle
Facebook Might Help You Live Longer, According to Facebook Researchers
It depends on whether online social ties strengthen real-world social ties, which are known to be good for your health
Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps
Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map was the oldest document to use "America" to describe the body of land between Africa and Asia
A New Tool From This American Life Will Make Audio as Sharable as Gifs
A tech company best known for creating Twitter bots has put its skills to help make podcasts go viral
Wikipedia Wants You to Improve Its Coverage of Indigenous Peoples
Why does the site that anyone can edit contain so little coverage of native people?
Channel Childhoods Gone By With This Digital Archive of Victorian Children’s Books
From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age
Fuel Your Design Obsession With 200,000 Newly Digitized Artifacts
Explore 30 centuries of design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum without leaving your computer
Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus
The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents
Karl Marx, My Puppy ‘Max,’ Instagram and Me
A historian tries hard to understand modern society and buys a #cutepuppy
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