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    1. Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II

      • Date: November 11, 2014
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.

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    3. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

      The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

      • Date: July 16, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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    5. 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.

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    7. Enola Gay, by Dane Penland, National Air and Space Museum

      Recent Acquisition - Records from Martin Harwit, Director, NASM, 1986-1995

      • Date: April 24, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Looking at a recently acquired collection records created and maintained by former National Air and Space Museum director, Martin Harwit, that relate to the Enola Gay, its exhibition, and the controversy that ensued.

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    9. Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

      Exhibiting the Enola Gay

      • Date: June 25, 2020
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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    11. 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.

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    13. Washington Monument, c. 1920-1924, by Martin A. Gruber.

      Many Happy Returns to the Washington Monument!

      • Date: October 22, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Washington Monument marks its 125th anniversary on October 9, 2013.

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    15. The Smithsonian in Wartime web exhibit

      Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!

      • Date: August 9, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.

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    17. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    19. Blog Post

      The World Is Yours: Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives

      • Date: March 4, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives.”

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    21. Dog Days at the Zoo, Part II

      • Date: September 18, 2012
      • Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.

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    23. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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