A Black American’s Guide to Travel In the Jim Crow Era
For decades, The Green Book was the black traveler’s lifeline
The Origins of the King James Bible
A handwritten draft of the world’s most famous bible has been discovered in England
Mold Is Threatening Boston Public Library’s Rare Books
As spores are found in the stacks, it’s time to battle a fuzzy foe
Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems
There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games
Meet Mr. Wizard, Television’s Original Science Guy
In the 1950s and 1960s, Don Herbert broadcast some of the most mesmerizing, and kooky, science experiments from his garage
These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS
Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants
The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive
Seven years and 100,000 hours of work later, the IOC’s archive has been digitized and preserved
Archivists Uncover an Unfinished Memoir By Orson Welles
Fragments of “Confessions of a One-Man Band” discovered in a newly-acquired trove of documents
Archivists Are Uncovering Lost Mark Twain Stories
Digital archives reveal Samuel Clemens, struggling journalist
New Works by Nam June Paik Are Discovered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
While inventorying the massive archival materials left by the artist, a researcher comes across forgotten works of art
The Library of Congress Now Has Rosa Parks’ Personal Letters
The loan of over 10,000 documents from the Civil Rights icon’s personal life reveals her complexity and inner struggles—as well as one solid pancake recipe
Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters
The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist’s writings
Rescuing Jorge Prelorán’s Films From Storage And Time
The Smithsonian’s Film Archives is reintroducing the world to the influential work of the Argentine-American filmmaker
Peering into the Secret Diaries of American Artists
A new Archives of American Art exhibition looks at how artists documented their lives before social media
The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections)
A massive digitization and transcription project calls for volunteers at the Smithsonian
The National Archives Wants to Put Its Whole Collection on Wikimedia Commons
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to upload everything it can
You Can Read All 17,198 of Susan Sontag’s Emails
She sent emails with subject lines like “Whassup?”
Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase
A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs
The French Revolution in Pictures
The French Revolution Digital Archive has more than 14,000 images from the Revolution of 1789
This Satellite Just Returned From Circling the Sun, But NASA’s Lost the Ability to Talk to It
The style of transmitters that would let NASA talk to the spacecraft were taken out of commission
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