Results for "Organization of American States"
Alice Paul Memorial March
- Date: March 26, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.
You’ve Still Got Mail
- Date: April 19, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Is that you, John Quincy Adams?
- Date: February 20, 2012
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.
Legislative Logjam to Kitchen Sink
- Date: May 22, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: In the spring of 1846, after years of debate, the legislative logjam over what the Smithsonian would be was finally broken with compromise legislation by New York Congressman, William Jervis Hough.
The Life Behind the Photograph
- Date: March 28, 2013
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Thanks to the Flickr community, the Smithsonian Archives knows the context for a photograph of Norwegian biologist Kristin Bonnevie.
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The Smithsonian and Latin America
- Date: February 15, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has
Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist
- Date: August 17, 2021
- Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.
Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”
- Date: June 23, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social
A Rabel with a Cause: Gabriele Rabel, biologist, philosopher, author, and contributor to Science Service
- Date: March 31, 2015
- Description: A brief biographical sketch of Dr. Gabriele Rabel, Austrian born phyisist, biologist, philosopher, author, and stringer for Science Service in the 1930’s.
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Controversy in the “Castle”
- Date: November 10, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
The Broad Mission of the Division of Inquiry
- Date: January 26, 2012
- Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.
An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates
- Date: September 8, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.