"The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been a privilege connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea."
In 2003 the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at UMBC was approached to re-create virtually the area around Capitol Hill, Washington DC in 1814 for an upcoming PBS style documentary on architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The research is on-going and now encompasses re-creating virtually all of the Washington DC area from 1790 through 1820."
"To celebrate the 175th anniversary of his birth, The Morgan Library & Museum, in partnership with The New York Public Library, presents the iconic author's manuscripts, letters, drawings, books, original illustrations for his books, and posed and candid photographs. These works convey the essence of Twain's acerbic humor and philosophy and explore a central, recurring theme throughout his work—an uneasy, often critical, attitude toward a rapidly modernizing America."