Palm trees, mountains, watersprings, stars, and Panamanian orchids adorn Lina Barkawi’s handmade wedding dress. But Lina’s dress was an act of more than mere craftsmanship — in creating her thobe, Lina contributed to the centuries-old tradition of Palestinian embroidery known as tatreez. Passed down orally from generation to generation, tatreez patterns hold great symbolic

The Strong: National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY is home to the Brian Sutton-Smith Library & Archives of Play.  The Strong proclaims that it “owns and cares for the world’s most comprehensive collection of toys, dolls, board games, video games, other electronic games, and other historical materials related to play.” Fortunately, much of its

The William F. Cody Archives is a joint project between the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This digital archive allows researchers to follow the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and his generational impact on the American West.  Topics addressed in the archive range from Buffalo Bill’s biography, to his