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This black metal suitcase belonged to Iku Tsuchiya. It went with her to Tanforan Assembly Center, then to the Topaz camp, and back home to San Leandro, California. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

What Happened to Japanese American Houses During Incarceration?

Oree Originol, Justice for Our Lives, 2014-Present, 78 digital images, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Patricia Tobacco Forrester Endowment, 2020.51A-MM, © 2014, Oree Originol. Photo of Installation by Albert Ting.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Protest and Remembrance: Chicanx Artists Confront Police Brutality

Through research on living and preserved fungus-farming ants, entomologists are learning more about the insects’ deep connection to their environment and how that relationship might evolve in response to a changing climate. (Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

How Fungus-Farming Ants Fertilize Climate Research

(Photo courtesy of Masatsu “Masa” Kawamoto collection, Division of Work and Industry, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Cowboys in the Tropics: A History of the Hawaiian Paniolo

While held at the Poston camp in Arizona, Yasu Takei made this one-thousand-stitch sash to bestow good luck and protection to her son Jim Kuichi Takei, who was fighting with the 442nd in Europe. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

Memories of Japanese Incarceration Camps Remind Us That Our Freedoms Are Fragile

Photomicrograph of wood specimen, circa 1890s, by L. Bernie Gallaher, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-4701. (Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Meet the Smithsonian's First Woman Photographer

Paul Manship, Four Angels (sketch for Altar Triptych, American Military Cemetery, Anzio, Italy), ca. 1955, pen and ink and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Paul Manship, 1966.47.147

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Discoveries from the Collection: Honoring Service and Sacrifice in American Art

Cicada on tree branch; Wang Zhen (1867–1938); China, modern period, autumn 1919; fan mounted as album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art, F1998.222.2)

National Museum of Asian Art

Cicadas as Symbols of Rebirth in Chinese Art

The all-star team from Gila River (Arizona) that played at Heart Mountain (Wyoming). Tetsuo Furukawa is in the top row, fourth from the right. (NMAH)

National Museum of American History

Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath poses with students at the National Museum of American History in 2000. (National Museum of American History, Archives Center.)

American Women's History Initiative

Hear Voices of Women Leaders in Science, Technology, and Innovation

Eric J. García, Chicano Codices #1: Simplified Histories: The U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1846-1848, 2015, offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Lichtenberg Family Foundation, 2020.21.1R-V, © 2020, Eric J. García

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Chicano Artists Challenging History and Reclaiming Cultural Memory

Julia Santos Solomon inserting crosses for her In Memoriam installation, Christ Lutheran Church, Woodstock, NY, 2020. Photo by Scott Barfield.

Archives of American Art

New Collections: Pandemic Oral History Project

Through research on living and preserved plants, botanists are learning more about how flora has responded to climate change over the past centuries. (USDA photo by Preston Keres)

National Museum of Natural History

Why Plants are Seeding Climate Studies

The National Native American Veterans Memorial at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. to Reopen May 21

Correspondence from President Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Lang Freer, Freer and Sackler Archives.

National Museum of Asian Art

This Day in Freer History: May 5, 1906

Common yellowthroats, like the one pictured here, spend their winters in coffee growing regions in Latin America.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Birders Want You to Rethink Your Morning Roast

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History welcomes its new Head of Education, Outreach and Visitor Experience, Carla Easter. (James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's New Head of Education, Outreach and Visitor Experience

Through co-creation efforts with K-12 educators and Asian American community partners, the National Veterans Network, elementary and middle school educators, Asian Pacific American Center interns and National Museum of American History staff, learn more about the stories behind objects. (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center)

Smithsonian Education

What's Missing from Classrooms When Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices Aren't Included?

Filmmaker and Director Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu will talk about the role of storytelling in her film “Kapaemahu” in a panel discussion presented by the Mother Tongue Film Festival on May 14. (Still from “Kapaemahu,” courtesy of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu)

National Museum of Natural History

Eight Free Natural History Programs Streaming in May

Norman Granz and Ella Fitzgerald at a microphone, 1950. (Ella Fitzerald Papers, NMAH Archives Center)

National Museum of American History

How Norman Granz Revolutionized Jazz for Social Justice

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