NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH "Entertainment Nation”/”Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has accepted the donation of the papers of the late inventor Jerome H.

The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the National Museum of American History’s Smithsonian Food History Gala and the presentation of the Julia Child Award, given by The Julia Child Foundation for ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will accept a costume worn by actress Mariska Hargitay in her role as Capt. Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit during a Sept. 9 ...

The website Powering a Generation of Change launched in early 1998 to document and present the history of radical changes then taking place in the US electric power industry. From the days of Thomas ...

Bathing, from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries, required stamina and fortitude. Without indoor plumbing, bathing involved filling small portable tubs with water, bucket by bucket. This, as ...

A spherometer is a device that does just as the name suggests: it measures (ometer) a sphere (sphere). But what exactly would you measure on a sphere? You could measure its diameter or the ...

The Dutch Sugar Standard consisted of a set of glass jars, each containing a different sugar, that could be used to determine where a sample stood on the continuum from raw to refined. This jar is No.

The Hess Bed - An Early American Incubator [description by Audrey B. Davis, Assistant Curator, ca 1967] The Division of Medical Sciences recently acquired the original model of an early incubator for ...

Souvenir fan commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Fan has a bird pattern. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was an assertive statement about American ...

Analytical balance in a wood case with glass sides and top. The beam is notched and made of an aluminum alloy. The inscription on the ivory scale reads “WM AINSWORTH & SONS INC. / DENVER, COLO. MADE ...