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Winter Olympics

30th Anniversary of the Miracle on Ice

The men’s hockey team shocked the world

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Events: Founding Fathers, Civil Rights Activists and Gershwin’s Porgy

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Events: How To Build a Building, Remember Japanese Internment and Celebrate Civil Rights

May Asaki Ishimoto became one of the country's most established ballet wardrobe mistresses.

The Story of a Ballet Wardrobe Mistress

The precise stitchwork of May Asaka Ishimoto, a second generation Japanese American who survived two years in an internment camp

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Events: Celebrate Black History Month With Art and Science’s Best and Brightest

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Events: African American Patriots, Firefighter Memorabilia and Getting to Know Phoebe Greenberg

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Weekend Events: Celebrate the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Storytelling and More

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Have You Hugged Your Computer Today?

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Indian Ledger Drawings at the American History Museum

Britain's leaders made a miscalculation when they assumed that resistance from the colonies, as the Earl of Dartmouth predicted, could not be "very formidable."

Myths of the American Revolution

A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence

"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building site turned a tamping iron into a missile.

Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor

United States president James Knox Polk

“Best of the Decade” with Air and Space Curator Tom Crouch

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Events for the Week of December 14-18: Harry Truman, A Doll’s House, The Muppets and More!

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“Best of the Decade” with the American History Museum’s Harry Rubenstein

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Events for the Week of 12/7-11: American Indian Dancing, Inspirational Toys, ZooLights and More!

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Deck the Dolls With Lots of Jolly

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Events: A National Zoo Electric Light Show, Holidays on Display, Celebrations of Winter Holidays

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“Holidays on Display” at American History Museum

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Celebrating 40 Years of Life On Sesame Street

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Events for the Week of 11/9-13: Africa Meets Mexico, Home School Open House, Confederate Currency and More!

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