public history
Outside the Spacecraft - NASM
Outside the Spacecraft, an interactive museum exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. High resolution photographs, insight into curation and preservation techniques, even checklists and paperwork.
The exhibit reminded me of this recent tweet by The Onion:
Otherwise Reasonable Man Sincerely Believes U.S. Landed On Moon: The Onion
(@TheOnion)
February 17, 2015
(Revised and republished April 13th, 2025)
Fred Soper - Wikipedia
I happened across an historical US passport for Fred Soper (1893-1977), the American epidemiologist and public health administrator, while doing some research on paperwork. The National Library of Medicine has a page on Fred Soper under their "Profiles in Science" project, but Soper's Wikipedia page is quite lacking (updates have been made since 2015). Updating Wikipedia for this historical figure would make a great project for a History and/or Digital Humanities class. There's also a listing of primary visual sources, with high resolution images.
(Revised and republished April 13th, 2025)