Results for "Smithsonian Associates. Civil War Studies"
Recognizing the Smithsonian Staff Who Served in the Gulf War
- Date: November 10, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This Veterans Day, we salute the 21 men and women at the Smithsonian who served in the Gulf War.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes
- Date: 1992 11/21/1991 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 1, 1991
- Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 1, 1991
War Correspondents
- Date: July 26, 2012
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Discusses the opening of an exhibit When Time and Duty Permit: Smithsonian Collecting in World War II and the correspondence files that will be displayed.
Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor
- Date: March 27, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science
National Associates' Selected Studies Program on Horticulture
- Date: 1978 June 14, 1978
- Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian: Recycling Since 1862
- Date: April 22, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 3/23/2012
- Date: March 23, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/1/2011
- Date: July 1, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Note: I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so look for Link Love to start again on July 22nd! We’ve been blogging about the Civil War and the Smithsonian for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, and others across the Smithsonian have been doing the same. Over at NPR’s Picture show blog, photography curator Shannon Perich shares some incredible animated Civil War-era
- SI History Chronology
War Background Series Published
- Date: 1941
- Blog Post
Wartime in Washington—Mary Henry on the First Manassas
- Date: July 21, 2011
- Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will feature posts related to the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. On July 21, 1861, the First Battle of Manassas raged just thirty miles southwest of Washington DC and the Smithsonian Institution Building that housed Secretary Joseph Henry and his family.
- SI History Chronology
Smithson Held as a Prisoner of War
- Date: September 18, 1808
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000609, Smithsonian Institution Office of American Studies, Records, 1962-1987
- Date: 1962 1962-1987
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of American Studies
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
