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  1. SI History Bibliography

    The Man, The Movement, The Museum: The Journey of John R. Kinard as the First African American Director of a Smithsonian Institution Museum

    • Date: 2017 20th century
    • Creator: Kinard Joy G
    • Creator: Kinard Joy G

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    The Smithsonian Abolition Lecture Controversy: The Clash of Antislavery Politics With American Science in Wartime Washington

    • Date: December 2000 Civil War, 1861-1865
    • Creator: Conlin, Michael Francis
    • Creator: Conlin, Michael Francis

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    John Kinard

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14623,size=300,left]Born in 1936 in Washington DC, John Robert Edward Kinard would become the first African American director of a Smithsonian museum at the age of 31. Kinard’s circuitous path into museum work took him from development work in Africa to community organizing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a dilapidated theater on Nichols Street in DC’s

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    The Bigger Picture | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Torch 10/1968

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1968 Box 1 Folder 10

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    • Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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      Torch 03/1978

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1978 Box 1 Folder 3

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      A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell

      • Date: 2001 Civil War, 1861-1865
      • Creator: Worster, Donald 1941-
      • Creator: Worster, Donald 1941-

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      Lightning & Lightning Rods

      • Date: March 21, 2012
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      SIA Acc. 10-200, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Office of Education and Public Programs Media Development Department, Project Files, 1991-2006

      • Date: 1991 1991-2006
      • Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. Office of Education and Public Programs. Media Development Department
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Torch 03/1968

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1968 Box 1 Folder 3

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      Malcolm Watkins

      • Date: August 19, 2016
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8629,size=350,left]C. Malcolm Watkins was an unlikely revolutionary; nevertheless, he would lead a vanguard of curators who brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. C. Malcolm Watkins, Smithsonian curator and cultural historian, brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. Attentive

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