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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. Field Work and a World War

      • Date: July 12, 2012
      • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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    7. 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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    9. 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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    11. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

      Celebrating National Radio Day

      • Date: August 18, 2022
      • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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    13. 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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    15. 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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    17. 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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    19. Visitors viewing transparent woman at the opening of the Hall of Health

      The Hall of Health and the Exhibits Modernization Program

      • Date: December 15, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: In the 1950s US National Museum staff revitalized exhibits across the Smithsonian, completely transforming the Arts & Industries Building.

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      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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      Earth Day

      • Date: April 19, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.

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