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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...
TOM D. CROUCH is a curator emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He has authored many books, including the award-winning The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters.
Celebrate documentaries and dramas at Filmfest D.C., explore hundreds of bands during Petworth PorchFest, and sample gourmet chocolate from around the world.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ... once told an interviewer that as a young man, he read every book in the Schomburg collection. “I knew that what was ...
Poet Kevin Young, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American ... in Black Culture and is the author of 11 books of poetry. Before signing on at the Schomburg ...
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten ...
One of the available books contains “imagination ... as well as statements by Smithsonian leadership and the overall trajectory of the museum industry, raise legitimate concerns that America ...
Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature," David B. Williams slows down and takes a close look at Seattle.
In 2019, he became the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. His duties include overseeing ... Bunch tells the story of creation of NMAAHC in his new book “A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum ...