What's Happening in November: Events for Native American Heritage Month and More!
Here's what's happening this month at the National Museum of American History
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How a Newspaper Revolution Sparked Protesters and Influencers: Disinformation and the Civil War
How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers, widespread disinformation, and nasty fights over free speech. This media landscape helped bring about the Civil War.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon's Lessons for Living
Bernice Johnson Reagon’s life offers us lessons to navigate an unjust world and work toward change. From her role as a Civil Rights activist to her transformative curatorial position at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Reagon demonstrated how songs and musical traditions, particularly those of the oppressed and marginalized, can transform the world.