Veterans Day: Remembering World War I
At 5 a.m. on November 11, 1918, the United States and its allies concluded an armistice with Germany. Later that morning, at 11 a.m. French time, World War I hostilities came to an end after one...
View ArticleThe Promise and Loss of the Hindenburg
Post written by Mariam Touba This spring we have heard much that commemorates the disaster that befell the ocean liner Titanic, but it is not the only mournful anniversary of the destruction of a...
View ArticleRedwoods and Hitler: the link between nature conservation and the eugenics...
In 1931, the California State Park Commission presented this engrossed certificate in gratitude to Save the Redwoods League founders Henry Fairfield Osborn, Madison Grant and John C. Merriam. From all...
View Article“To wake the sluggards effectually”: The Beginnings of Daylight Saving Time
This post is by Samantha Walsh, Reference Assistant in the Department of Prints, Photographs & Architectural Collections The first mention of Daylight Saving Time was made by Benjamin Franklin, in...
View ArticleCharles H. Sherrill, Hitler and the 1936 Olympics
This post was written by Ted O’Reilly, Head of the Manuscript Department. Within the Historical Society’s holdings is a series of remarkable scrapbooks kept by Charles H. Sherrill, a New York lawyer,...
View ArticleRare Books Revealed: Parchment Repurposed
Sometimes when catalogers examine a book, we find that parts of its structure use recycled materials from other books. These materials are often invisible, hidden away under outer coverings of paper or...
View ArticleCamp Sagan: The Forgotten Prisoners of World War I
The fact that Russian World War I soldiers remained prisoners of war well after the November 1918 Armistice is one of the more obscure aspects of the war’s history. But with civil war raging in Russia,...
View ArticleThe White Mountains…in 3D
Archival collections often have variety of printed material and ephemera such as pamphlets, broadsides, books, and maps. Periodically, these offer unexpected perspective on an aspect of history, as is...
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