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Go-go legend Chuck Brown performs with the Chuck Brown Band in 2011 at Ibiza, a now-shuttered D.C. nightclub.
music

Tracing the Funky Story of D.C. Go-Go, From Parties to Protest

It's not every day that a library archive will make you want to boogie.
April White September 22, 2021
One of Jerry Weller's photo albums, with notes that Patti May gave to GLAPN identifying people in the pictures.
history

The Precious, Precarious Work of Queer Archiving in the Pacific Northwest

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.
Emma Banks April 14, 2023
One of the included cookbooks, <em>Cooking by Kadambila Saraswati</em>, is about South Canara cuisine.
food

Cook Your Way Through Regional Indian Recipes With This Online Archive

A student project is digitizing the subcontinent's community cookbooks.
Sharanya Deepak May 3, 2021
David Shorter prepares herbs from his garden to make tinctures. From left to right: blue lily flowers, calea zacatechichi, lavender, and gordolobo.
food

Help Curate This Vast Trove of Kitchen-Table Remedies

The Archive of Healing includes hundreds of thousands of folk healing traditions from six continents.
Reina Gattuso April 21, 2021
An anatomical engraving from 1872.
libraries

Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.
Megan Rosenbloom January 29, 2021
observatories

Inside a Historic Observatory That Almost Went Up in Flames

Lick Observatory in California has lived to see another starry night.
Isaac Schultz September 3, 2020
A plan for the controversial World War II exhibition known as <em>Exhibition X</em>.
museums

Plumbing the Secrets of the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art

From an Avenue of Fascism, to turtle soup, to a phantom photo of three important women having tea.
Andrew Russeth August 3, 2020
Berthold Laufer's cylinders: one row for vocals, the other for instruments.
museums

Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known Stereo Recordings?

In 1901, a traveling researcher recorded some Chinese opera, and accidentally made music history.
Matthew Taub July 15, 2020
Verona, Italy

Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.
A participant named Debbie Graves shows off her goth look.
photography

The Museum of Youth Culture Wants Your Teenage Memories

Your awkward, rebellious stage, it turns out, is history.
Matthew Taub May 20, 2020
The mine slows the degradation of the photos. The most delicate materials are kept in a special refrigerated section.
hidden

This Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily Guarded Limestone Mine

Over 11 million Getty images are on ice near Pittsburgh.
Isaac Schultz May 11, 2020
"The package may be small, but you will know it does not need to hold the love I send, for that cannot be confined," Hildreth Heiney wrote to her fiancé in 1918. The man in the photograph, identified as John, may be her brother.
libraries

A Trove of Sad, Funny, and Familiar Stories From the 1918 Flu Pandemic

A UCLA librarian has built a remarkable collection of century-old letters, diaries, and photographs.
Jessica Klein May 1, 2020
While you're sheltering in place, you can collect oral histories that bridge your family's past and present.
radio

It's the Perfect Time to Record Your Family's History. Here's How.

Invite your relatives to share great stories with these tips from oral historians.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 29, 2020
If you're at home, sit down for a cup of tea with Joyce Chen.
television

Hobbies to Hone While Hunkering Down, With Help From Public TV

Learn to draw, craft up a storm, or boogie like it's 1979.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 16, 2020
At Harvard, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury.
libraries

Even More Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home

As long as we're all cooped-up, here are six digital projects that could use your curiosity.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 7, 2020
It's a shame we don't yet have the technology to digitize the Library's famous Nottebohm Room.
libraries

The Ambitious Plan to Digitize 100,000 Historic Texts in Belgium

Two major Antwerp institutions are putting some of their voluminous holdings in the cloud.
Matthew Taub April 7, 2020
The Museum of Portable Sound before its Grand Opening Gala in November 2015. The tiny ribbon in front of the phone was cut with the tiny pair of scissors.
libraries

A Loopy Library of Sounds Features Sprinklers, Sirens, and Freud's Toilet

The Museum of Portable Sound normally resides on an iPhone 4S. Now, you can hear it via video chat.
Claire Voon April 3, 2020
Librarians and archivists have digitized a lot of material, and they could use your help reading through it.
libraries

How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room

If you're cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 23, 2020