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Visitors to the National Portrait Gallery share their presidential thoughts on the eve of Election Day (Video by Ryan Reed / Edited by Ryan Reed and Jesse Rhodes / Interviews …
Counting Down for the Liftoff to the Moon
Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to Florida in 1969 to watch the launch of Apollo 11 (Produced by Molly Roberts; Photographs by David …
Home Movies of the Patton Family
The grandson of Gen. George S. Patton shares his family’s home movies
The researchers place a white “X” on one side of Happy’s head. When Happy sees the “X” in the mirror, she repeatedly touches the mark with her trunk
Three Years After “We Will Bury You,” Nikita Khrushchev Tours America
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.html As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California.
A Navy Plebe Re-Meets His Match
Photojournalist Lucian Perkins reunites Naval Academy graduates Sandee Irwin and Don Holcomb, 30 years after his photo captured the new gender dynamics at the school (Photography Interview and Production by …
Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth’s surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent.
Charles Babbage’s Difference Machine No. 2
The first computer is thought to be the invention of a 19th century mathematician
Videos from the 1950s show architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the site of the Guggenheim Museum
The Historic Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires
Take in the sights and sounds of the European influences of Argentina’s capital city (Produced by: Brendan McCabe). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/daniel-politi-on-hola-buenos-aires-138874294/
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement’s most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read …
Uncovering the Terra Cotta Soldiers
A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about Chinas Qin dynasty
Underwater Archaeology in Pensacola Bay
Researchers from the University of West Florida are slowly uncovering the remains of a 16th-century shipwreck of a Spanish galleon in the shallow, murky waters near Pensacola
The John Marshall Ju/’hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000
Watch a selection from the Smithsonian Institution’s submission for the UNESCO Memory of the World Register of historic artifacts
Fly through, and over, ancient Rome’s winding streets, broad plazas, forumseven its most famous monuments
New technologies helped marine archaeologists recover the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine
Watch one of Amelia Earhart’s final takeoffs, July 2, 1937
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, thought in images, as this clip from his early 1960s piece “Cat and Mouse” exemplifies. Henson’s prolific mind is celebrated in the new Smithsonian …
Learn about the history of wild rice and the Ojibwa
Anna Coleman Ladd fits soldiers for masks in her studio
Re-enactors relive the Battle of Baltimore and celebrate the flag that inspired our national anthem (Ryan R. Reed). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/star-spangled-banner-back-on-display-83229098/
In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South Script and narration: Marian Holmes Photos courtesy of …
Walking Through Civil War History
Edwin Bearss lends a dynamic personality and a booming voice to teaching the history of the Civil War in northern Virginia (Meredith Bragg)
The Marine Band, having played at nearly every presidential swearing-in ceremony since Thomas Jefferson’s in 1801, readies for Barack Obama’s inauguration (Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Inauguration-2009.html
Carleton Watkins’ 19th-Century Photographs of Yosemite Valley (Produced and Narrated by: Brendan McCabe. Text by Bruce Hathaway). Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/john-muirs-yosemite-10737/
Historian Speaks to Lincoln’s Legacy
Author Harold Holzer discusses Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the President’s lasting impact on modern American politics and nostalgia (Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/life-of-lincoln.html
National Portrait Gallery historian David C. Ward discusses images of Abraham Lincoln that document his life in the White House (Anika Gupta, Beth Py-Lieberman, Jesse Rhodes and Ryan Reed). Read …
Take a tour of the National Mall, past and present (Kenneth R. Fletcher). Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-pierre-lenfant-and-washington-dc-39487784/
Did New Orleans Invent the Cocktail?
Cocktail historians differ on the birthplace of the word “cocktail,” but they cherish America’ invention of drinks like the mint julep (Meredith Bragg)
Herman Leonard’s Jazz Photographs
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Herman-Leonards-Eye-for-Jazz.html With just a camera as his ticket, Herman Leonard captured jazz icons performing on and off stage.
Edward Steichen’s World War 2 Photographers
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/In-Vogue.html At 62 years old, Edward Steichen convinced the U.S. Navy to let him gather a team of photographers to capture the men serving their country in …
Behind the Scenes with Gowns of the First Ladies Exhibit
An exhibit about the first ladies reopens at the National Museum of American History, including dresses worn at inaugural balls.
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