Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies"
2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now
- Date: October 14, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Link Love: 7/5/2013
- Date: July 5, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Women in Humanities
- Date: March 3, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George
- Date: February 24, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Link Love: 9/16/2011
- Date: September 16, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].
Link Love: 6/14/2013
- Date: June 14, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 10/16/2015
- Date: October 16, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 9/13/2013
- Date: September 13, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part II
- Date: June 15, 2017
- Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.
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The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman
- Date: December 7, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.
Link Love: 10/13/2017
- Date: October 13, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own
Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date: September 26, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are