Happy Friday, readers. Here are a few historical highlights touching on architecture, space exploration, World War II, libraries, and a fun museum.
Read the latest in the New York Times’ series of obituaries of overlooked historical women. (If you’re interested, I shared another article about Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng in this post.)
Photos from NASA’s first 11 years of manned missions almost got thrown in the garbage.
Here’s an excerpt from a new book on “The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe.”
You probably know that I’m interested in the history of libraries. Well, here’s a historical tidbit about the first free-standing library in Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaking of libraries, Modern Mrs. Darcy alerted me to this Twitter thread about a library mystery.
Wouldn’t it be fun to visit the Trick Eye Museum in South Korea?