Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!

Dr. Melanie A. Adams, Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2019–present, previously served as the deputy director of learning initiatives at the Minnesota Historical Society and the managing director of the Missouri Historical Society. She brings twenty-five years of community engagement experience to the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.

Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation in the Department of Engineering and Industries, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, late 1940s.

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Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

Dr. Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Forest Ecologist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 2012–present, leads the ForestGEO Ecosystems and Climate Program. In 2019, she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. #Groundbreaker

Thirty-six years ago today, "M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds" opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

Section of Vertebrate Paleontology staff of the United States National Museum, with research associate Oliver Perry Hay, and assistant curators Charles Whitney Gilmore and James Williams Gidley, 1910s.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.