Today’s historical highlights consist of nine articles (Libraries! Oral history! The periodic table! Tiffany glass! Forgeries! Ulama!) and two fun links (Words! Books!).
“2 ticketed for trespassing at Colorado Springs library; new visitor policy implemented”
“National World War II Museum Planning Expansion of Campus to Include Library”
“Bought for a buck, now priceless: Alberta Indigenous media archive being digitized”
“Periodic table found at St Andrews University ‘is world’s oldest'”
“Celebrating Eleven Years in the Flickr Commons”
“How Tiffany Studios Crafted Rainbows in Glass”
“Art Talk: William Voelkle On Collecting Forgeries”
“Medieval Female Scribes Revealed by Blue-Flecked Teeth”
“The decolonization game: An ancient sport puts Mexicans in touch with their Indigenous past”
The Merriam-Webster website has a cool feature where you enter a date and find out which words first appeared in print that year. In the year I was born (1986) some words that debuted were chat room, sippy cup, and ozone hole.
Even if you don’t have an Instagram account you can check out these bookish feeds (including the New York Public Library and the Emily Dickinson Museum).