Results for "Political science"
Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions
- Date: July 19, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting
- SI History Bibliography
A Two-Ocean Bouillabaisse: Science, Politics, and the Central American Sea-Level Canal Controversy
- Date: 2017
- Creator: Keiner, Christine 1971-
- Creator: Keiner, Christine 1971-
- SI History Bibliography
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
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
- Blog Post
Formidable: Women in Science
- Date: March 8, 2009
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!
- Blog Post
Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace
- Date: September 19, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.
Division of Political History Exhibition
- Date: 1968 December 27, 1968
- Creator: Unknown
Political Campaign Exhibit in Arts and Industries
- Date: 1960
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
George Klein (1928-1981)
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-099, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Political History, Exhibition Records, 1984-2015
- Date: 1984 1984-2015
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Political History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science
- Date: June 12, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
![George Klein (1928-1981), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4855].](https://ids.si.edu/ids/iiif/SIA-SIA2008-4855/full/250,/0/default.jpg "George Klein (1928-1981), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4855].")