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Smithsonian paleontologist, Hans Sues, answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time YouTube series, “The Doctor Is In.” (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

The Dr. Is In: What Is the Smallest Known Dinosaur and Other Questions from Our Readers

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Artist Brendan Fernandes On the Dance Floor as a Space for Resistance and Resilience

Command Sergeant Major Julia Kelly (U.S. Army retired), one of 80 Native American delegates to the 75th anniversary observance of D-Day, stands on Omaha Beach. Kelly holds an eagle feather staff, an American Indian symbol of respect, honor, and patriotism. (Courtesy of Julia Kelly)

National Museum of the American Indian

On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Native Americans Remember Veterans’ Service and Sacrifices

National Museum of the American Indian

Winyan (Woman) Power: New Art by Kevin and Valerie Pourier Honors Women Who Stand Up for the Rights and Welfare of Others

Photograph of Elizabeth Catlett sculpture Students Aspire with description (detail), 1978 / unidentified photographer. Elizabeth Catlett papers, 1957-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Elizabeth Catlett and the (Black) Artist as Engineer

SAAM lit for Pride 2018. Photo by Andrew Rondinone. The museum exterior will be lit again for Pride 2019 from May 31 through June 9.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Popping (Up) With Pride at SAAM

A design drawing shows the standing metal ring of the National Native American Veterans Memorial as it will be seen from the southeast corner of the National Mall, between the Capitol Building and the National Museum of the American Indian. (Design by Harvey Pratt/Butzer Architects and Urbanism, illustration by Skyline Ink, courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian)

National Museum of the American Indian

New Drawings Show the National Native American Veterans Memorial Taking Its Place on the National Mall

Smithsonian paleontologist, Hans Sues, answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time YouTube series, “The Doctor Is In.” (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

The Dr. Is In: What Did Stegosaurus Eat and Other Questions from Our Readers

Education Specialist Gale Robertson helps museum visitors test prototypes of hands-on activities that will be in “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time” when it opens June 8 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

Try These Hands-on Activities in the Smithsonian’s New Fossil Hall

Former Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough holds

Smithsonian Associates

Learn the Real Science Behind 'Breaking Bad’ and 19 Other Things to Do at the Smithsonian in June

(Dino Morrow Photography)

American Women's History Initiative

Hawai'i’s Women Canoe Carvers

Photograph of John Vassos holding the Marchesa model accordion he designed for M. Hohner, 195-? / unidentified photographer. John Vassos papers, 1915-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Streamlined and Sonic: John Vassos and Instrument Design

“Marian Anderson” by Beauford Delaney, oil on canvas, 1965. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Hardwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Photo by Travis Fullerton ©Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator

Smithsonian Year of Music

Barrier-Breaking Opera Singer, Marian Anderson, Featured by National Portrait Gallery

Lee Hall, untitled watercolor, ca. 1980s (detail). Watercolor on paper, 6 ½ x 5 in. Lee Hall Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Acquisitions: Lee Hall Papers

Photograph of Val Laigo next to his mosaic in Dr. Jose Rizal Park, Seattle, Washington (detail), between 1988 and 1989 / unidentified photographer. Val Laigo papers, 1954-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Val Laigo and the Mosaic of Filipino America

Tyler Fuqua,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Mom's the Word with artist Tyler Fuqua

Last summer, I brought my son, Toby, with me on a field work trip to Kenya for the first time. It wasn’t easy but I’m glad I did it and would definitely do it again. (Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

How to Balance Motherhood and a STEM Career

Postcard of the Smithsonian Institution Castle sent in 1939 from my mom in Washington, D.C. to my uncles in Casper, Wyoming—nearly 80 years before I started working at the Smithsonian. (Kirk Johnson)

National Museum of Natural History

Museum Director Discovers His Mother’s Childhood Visit to the Smithsonian

Smithsonian paleontologist, Hans Sues, answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time YouTube series, “The Doctor Is In.” (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

The Dr. Is In: Are Birds Dinosaurs and Other Questions from Our Readers

Effie Kapsalis is the Senior Digital Program Officer for the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

American Women's History Initiative

A Conversation with Effie Kapsalis

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