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1. Here's a great post from the Archivist of the United States (RSS/![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
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( Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 )
2. If you are looking for fascinating new blogs, the C-SPAN video blog (RSS/cspan_video_feed) is a great entry point into their huge collection. (I just watched a baby turtle poop in a senator's hand!)
3. I really like this Book Spine Poetry that the Somers Library in New York put up on Flickr. A couple of my favorites, linked and transcribed here:
( Book Spine Poetry )
aotus_feed), where he uses the news that the Library of Congress is acquiring the digital archive of public tweets as a jumping off point for explaining the difference between the missions of the National Archives and the Library of Congress. And along the way, he showed an interesting historian's perspective on twitter:( Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 )
2. If you are looking for fascinating new blogs, the C-SPAN video blog (RSS/
cspan_video_feed) is a great entry point into their huge collection. (I just watched a baby turtle poop in a senator's hand!)3. I really like this Book Spine Poetry that the Somers Library in New York put up on Flickr. A couple of my favorites, linked and transcribed here:
( Book Spine Poetry )
