Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | April 21, 2008
I was sad to see the end of the amazing HBO mini-series about John and Abigail Adams. Even though I had read the David McCullough book on which it was based, I now have a much better visual understanding of the entire time period. I think my favorite scene visually was that of the half-finished [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | April 18, 2008
Next spring when the cherry trees bloom, maybe I’ll be able to fly to Washington, D.C., to see all the great sights I missed when I first visited our nation’s capital in the early 90s–the renovated National Portrait Gallery, the new National Museum of the American Indian, the huge new Audiovisual Conservation Center of the [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | April 5, 2008
Last year I helped a bit to build a list of lessons and teaching ideas in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities “Picturing America” program. Now you may not think of paintings as primary sources, but I find many similarities between American paintings and traditional primary sources such as letters, photographs, maps, journals, [...]