Since Election Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), to open in 2015 on the National Mall, has been busily snatching up Obama campaign memorabilia—including most of the objects in a Falls Church, Virginia campaign ...
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, was an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commission’s mandate was to provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, ...
On January 21, in one of his first official acts, President Barack Obama revoked the Bush administration’s Executive Order 13233 that severely limited access by the public to presidential records. Click here to see a copy of President Obama’s new ...
Nondestructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry? Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry analysis? Forget the dense terminology in a recent Getty news release, unless you happen to be a conservation scientist. For everyone else, here’s the latest scoop from the Getty Conservation Institute: Scientist Dusan ...
The National Archives will open more than 150 cubic feet of records of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commission’s mandate was to ...
From The Daily Chronicle , January 20, 2009 Users around the world now have access to the legal papers of Abraham Lincoln, according to a news release from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. “The Law Practice of Abraham ...
LOS ANGELES—Scientists at the Getty Conservation Institute have developed a new chemical analysis technique that could revolutionize the authentication of historic photographs. In the past, photographs have typically been identified through visual or microscopic inspection, a method that relies on ...
Ben Franklin’s Wit & Wisdom is a delightful little volume published c1960 by the Peter Pauper Press of Mount Vernon, New York. The introduction explains that the “wise sayings which follow come from many different numbers of Ben Franklin’s Poor ...
HAVANA – Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and coded messages the author sent when ...
North Jersey’s homegrown poet Sunday, December 14, 2008 Last updated: Sunday December 14, 2008, 4:14 PM BY MIKE KERWICK NorthJersey.com STAFF WRITER “Remember me, Ladies, the silent one? I have found my voice and my rage will blow your home ...