Results for "Smithsonian War Committee"
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian's 165th Anniversary
- Date: August 10, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Exactly 165 years ago today, legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President James K. Polk. From today’s perspective, it seems like a “no-brainer” to accept a generous bequest from a little-known Englishman named James Smithson and create an institution in his name. But from the perspective of that era, the
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Army to return to the Federal Republic of Germany certain works of art seized by the United States Army at the end of World War II
- Date: 1984 03/17/1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
- SI History Bibliography
History and the Culture Wars: The Case of the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay Exhibition
- Date: December 1995
- Creator: Kohn, Richard H
- Creator: Kohn, Richard H
- SI History Bibliography
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
- Date: 1996
- Creator: Linenthal, Edward Tabor 1947-,Engelhardt, Tom 1944-
- Creator: Linenthal, Edward Tabor 1947-,Engelhardt, Tom 1944-
Hall of Photography
- Date: February 16, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Neil Allen worked on audiovisual elements in the Hall of Photography which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1973.
- Blog Post
The Time Has Come
- Date: February 8, 2011
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [caption id="attachment_11359" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup Design for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Courtesy NMAAHC."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER
The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been
- Date: September 20, 2012
- Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.
Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926
- Date: October 1, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007386, Mitman, Carl Weaver 1889-, Carl W. Mitman Papers, 1937-1946, 1949
- Date: 1937 1937-1949 1937-1946, 1949
- Creator: Mitman, Carl Weaver, 1889-
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1846
- Date: 1879 December 4, 1846
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1846
- Date: 1879 September 8, 1846
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 20-005, Smithsonian Consortia, Program Records, 2010-2015
- Date: 2010 2010-2015 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Creator: Smithsonian Consortia
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives