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Disaster Management and Public Health: What can the US learn from the UN...
This post was authored by Dr. Tomoko Steen, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, Professor Virginia Murray will be speaking at...
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On Researching Capitalists, Financiers, and Builders of Empires
I have written several posts on industrialists and capitalists from America’s past – J.P. Morgan, Hetty Green, Andrew Carnegie, James Swan, and Jay Gould and James Fisk. But for those researching...
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The Rise of the Broom Brigade
Today’s post is guest authored by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Library’s Science, Technology, and Business Division. On a search for early materials on physical...
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Featured Advertisement: Cracker Jack
On this day in 1918 the featured Cracker Jack ad appeared in Washington, D.C.’s Evening Star suggesting folks ship the treat to troops overseas for Thanksgiving. The fine print in the middle of the ad...
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Revisiting the Apollo 17 Landing Site with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:...
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. At 12:33 a.m. on December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 lifted off in the Florida night...
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