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~ Minerd.com's Recommended News Stories and Blog Posts About Americana, Culture,
Art, Journalism, Science, Technology, History/Genealogy and Pittsburgh ~

"The National Gallery of Art Presents the First 50 Years of Photography" - Fine Books & Collections, Aug. 15, 2019

"America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One" - New York Times, Aug. 14, 2019

"A Giant Factory Rises to Make a Product Filling Up the World: Plastic" - New York Times, Aug. 12, 2019

"To Accept a Gift of Books or Not. A Dilemma for Libraries" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Hub, Aug. 2019

"Why Walking on the Moon Meant So Much" - by David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 21, 2019

"Barnes & Noble Purchased by a Hedge Fund. Times Have Changed" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, July 2019

"FOIA Is a Joke" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 2019

"Appalachian writers revisit J.D. Vance's seminal work 'Hillbilly Elegy' " - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 28, 2019

"Catholic Community Focuses on Compassion Rather Than Condemnation of Suicide" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 10, 2019

"Google Made $4. Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says" - New York Times, June 9, 2019

"A Grave Burden" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 9, 2019

"Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning" - Quanta Magazine, June 6, 2019

"The Price of Imperfection is Going Up" - by Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Hub, June 2019

"Alexander Hamilton Letter, Stolen 80 Years Ago, Finally Located" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, June 2019

"The Amazing Discovery of the Bibliography of Christopher Columbus' Son" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Hub, June 2019

"I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102" - New York Times, May 17, 2019

"The Folger's Future" - Fine Books & Collections, May 15, 2019

"Deepfakes Are Coming. We're Not Ready" - by Brian Klaas, Washington Post, May 14, 2019

"George Romero's Archives Acquired by University of Pittsburgh" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 16, 2019

"After the World Looks Away" - by Keith C. Burris, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 13, 2019

"Facebook co-founder: It's 'time to break up' the social network" - Washington Post, May 9, 2019

"What Is the Met Gala, and Who Gets to Go?" - New York Times, May 4, 2019

"She was the 'queen of the mommy bloggers.' Then her life fell apart." - Vox, May 2, 2019

"Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to be Established in North Dakota" - Fine Books & Collections, May 1, 2019

"Julian Assange is a journalist: Targeting the WikiLeaks founder sets a dangerous precedent" - by the Editorial Board, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 16, 2019

"Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris Catches Fire" - New York Times, April 15, 2019

"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wins Pulitzer Prize for Tree of Life coverage" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2019

"Return of Over 600 Volumes Missing Since World War II" - by Lukas Baumann, Sotheby's, April 12, 2019

"How to make sense of the black hole image, according to 2 astrophysicists" - Vox, April 12, 2019

"Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?" - by Jordan Pennells, Aeon, April 10, 2019

"An Ancient Human Species Is Discovered in a Philippine Cave" - New York Times, April 10, 2019

"Christine Davis digs into Pittsburgh's underground" - Pittsburgh Business Times, April 5, 2019

"How 'Good Design' Failed Us" - Nikil Saval, The New Yorker, April 3, 2019

"A Search Underway for Thousands of Books Looted Almost Four Centuries Ago" - by Michael Stillman, Rare Book Monthly, April 2019

[Archive - 2011 to Present]

~ Outstanding National, Regional and Local Archives and Reference Libraries ~

National:

* The National Archives
* Library of Congress
* American Memory Project
* Google Books and Google Scholar
* Smithsonian Institution

* The Internet Archive
* Pulitzer Prizes

* Nobel Prize e-Museum
* Presidential Libraries
* New York Public Library (Catalog)
* Merriam-Webster Dictionary

* U.S. Census Bureau
* The British Museum
* Google Blog Search Tool

Ohio:
* Ohio Historical Society Library
* Bowling Green (OH) State University

Pennsylvania:
* Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh
* Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
* Cornerstone Genealogical Society
* Meyersdale (PA) Public Library
* Historic Pittsburgh
* Pennsylvania State Archives
* Pennsylvania State Libraries
* Historical Society of Pennsylvania
* Uniontown (PA) Public Library
* Dunbar Historical Society
* Berks County (PA) Historical Society
* University of Pittsburgh Archive
* University of Pittsburgh Library
System's Archives and Special Collections

West Virginia:
* West Virginia University

Eastern United States:
* Maryland Archives Online
* Newark (NJ) Public Library

Indiana:
* Indiana State Library
* Allen County Public Library
* Allen County Genealogical Society

Midwest United States:
* Illinois State Archives
* The Newberry - Chicago
* Kansas State Library

Oklahoma:
* Oklahoma Historical Society

Academia Resources:
* Assn of College & Research Libraries
* Academia.edu

~ Rare Books, Photographs and Special Collections ~

Special Collections Libraries:
* Rosenbach Museum & Library - blog
* Morgan Library & Museum
* Univ of Virginia Rare Book School
* Lilly Library, Indiana University
* Ransom Center, University of Texas
* Scheide Library, Princeton University
* Folger Shakespeare Library
* University of Michigan Clements Library
* University of Florida Smathers Library
* Vanderbilt University
* University of Rochester River Campus
* Ephemera Society of America
* University of Illinois
* University of Pittsburgh
* The British Library, London

* Metropolitan Museum of Art Images

Photographs:
* Getty Images (includes Bettman
Archive and Corbis)

* Teenie Harris Archive

* Unsplash

Publications and Databases:
* Fine Books & Collections
* Rare Book Hub - Monthly Archives
* The Book Collector
* Booktryst

* Stolen-Book.org

Searches:
* ABEBooks
* viaLibri - Library Search
* Alibris
* Biblio.com
* BookFinder.com
* Antiquarian Booksellers Association

Bibliography and Cataloguing:
* OCLC WorldCat

~ Industrial and Railroad History ~

* US Mine Safety and Health Administration Statistics
* Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum
* Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society

~ Faith-Based History and Culture ~

* United Methodist Commission on Archives and History
* Lutheran Historical Conference
* Presbyterian Historical Society
* Mennonite Church USA Archives
* Wexner Heritage Program

~ Science and Medicine ~

* U.S. National Library of Medicine
* U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
* NASA - National Air and Space Administration

~ Historical Reconstructions, Museums, Homes and Inspiring Spaces ~

* Colonial Williamsburg
* Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village
* Plimouth Plantation
* John Adams National Historic Park, Massachusetts
* Mount Vernon, Virginia
* Monticello, Virginia

* Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio, Oak Park, IL
* Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life

* Westminster Abbey (London)
* Thomas Jefferson's Home Library at Monticello
* The Forbes Galleries (New York City)

~ Military History and Veterans Services ~

* Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System (National Park Service)
* Bugles Across America (services for funerals)
* Civil War Regiments
* U.S. Army Military History Institute
* U.S. Naval Historical Center and Merchant Marines

* A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion - by F.H. Dyer

* American Battle Monuments (Foreign soil burials)
* National Museum of Civil War Medicine
* Ohio in the Civil War
* Civil War Richmond
* National World War II Memorial
* Virtual Wall - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

~ Select Pittsburgh Regional Cultural and Sports Attractions ~

* Andy Warhol Museum
* Fallingwater
* Senator John Heinz History Center
* Frick Mansion and Art Center
* Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

* Pittsburgh Opera
* Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

* Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

* Westmoreland Museum of Art
* Carnegie Science Center

* Civic Light Opera
* Pittsburgh Cultural District
* Jimmy Stewart Museum

* National Aviary

* Rachel Carson Homestead

* Pirates - Major League Baseball
* Steelers - National Football League
* Penguins - National Hockey League

* University of Pittsburgh Football
* University of Pittsburgh Basketball

"Newspapers-Books-Magazines" illustration originally published in Adventures in American Literature, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach photo courtesy of ACME News Pictures, 1926. Warhol photo courtesy Pittsburgh Regional Alliance.