Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.
Description: [view in English]Durante su juventud en Washington, el dibujante William H. Holmes hacía bosquejos de especímenes para científicos del Museo Nacional de Estados Unidos. Con esa experiencia, en 1872 fue invitado a participar en el Levantamiento Estratigráfico de los Territorios de Estados Unidos bajo el mando de Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. Durante sus años en los territorios
Description: Historian Lonnie Bunch is the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian’s 19th museum. Growing up with a love of history and a sense that African Americans deserved “a voice,” his education and early career gave him the research, museum, and management experience that allowed him to successfully develop an idea into a