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    Smithsonian Museum Unveils a Piece of Bennu Asteroid

    NASA Administrator Bill Nelson joined the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the unveiling of the Bennu asteroid exhibit. A sample of the asteroid was collected during NASA’s…

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    Rapper Chuck D on "Songs That Shook The Planet"

    Grammy Award winner and Public Enemy co-founder Chuck D discussed the music of social change and his “Songs That Shook the Planet” project. The National Museum of African American History an…

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    Smithsonian Artifact Recovery Team

    The Smithsonian Institution graduated a specially trained team designed to recover national treasures endangered by threats from extreme weather to war. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch ad…

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    Battle of Little Bighorn

    American History TV toured the National Museum of the American Indian “Americans” exhibit with curator Cecile Ganteaume. In the Battle of Little Bighorn gallery, she showed Lakota headdresse…

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    Vice President Harris on Her Recent Trip to Africa

    Vice President Harris said she was excited for the future of Africa as she discussed her recent three-nation tour of the continent during a conversation at the National Museum of African Ame…

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    First Lady Jill Biden Inaugural Dresses Donation to Smithsonian

    First lady Jill Biden donated her inaugural dresses to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legal and Judicial Legacy

    The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presented its “Great Americans Medal” to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The posthumous award honored her legal and judicial career as well…

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    National Air and Space Museum Dedication Ceremony

    President Gerald Ford gave remarks and presided over a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on July 1, 1976. The president is then seen t…

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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg Artifacts Donated to Smithsonian

    Smithsonian political history curator Lisa Kathleen Graddy displayed and talked about items recently donated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s family. She explained the meaning and significan…

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    Thurgood Marshall as a Civil Rights Lawyer

    Spencer Crew, interim director of the National Museum of African Amercan History and Culture discussed the life of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall with legal historian Paul Fi…

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    National Museum of the American Indian "Trail of Tears" Exhibit

    The “Trail of Tears” gallery at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. looks at the national debate over the 1830 Indian Removal Act and its impact on southern tribes…

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    "Votes for Women" Exhibit, Part 2

    Historian Kate Clarke Lemay gave a guided tour of a National Portrait Gallery exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Starting with the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.…

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    "Votes for Women" Exhibit, Part 1

    Historian Kate Clarke Lemay gave American History TV a guided tour of a National Portrait Gallery exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Using images of early suffrage leaders…

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    National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts

    Alexandra Lord, medicine and science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, discussed the museum’s coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.

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    James Oscar Jones Oral History Interview

    James Oscar Jones talked about growing up in rural Arkansas, the influence of his parents' support for civil rights, and his work as the director of the Arkansas Project for the Student Nonv…

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    Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Oral History Interview

    Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recalled participating in the 1961 Freedom Rides, attending Tougaloo Colleg,e and serving time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary with other civil rights activis…

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    Kay Tillow Oral History Interview

    Kay Tillow talked about her involvement with the civil rights movement, starting with her participation in the 1963 desegregation sit-ins in Atlanta, Georgia, and her later work to organize …

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    Pocahontas and American Indian Imagery

    We toured the “Americans” exhibit in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC with curator Cecile Ganteaume. She showed us how Indian names and images are used on product…

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    1774

    Colonial historian Mary Beth Norton looked at the year 1774, the lead-up to and the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

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    Smithsonian Secretary Installation Ceremony

    Lonnie Bunch outlined his priorities during remarks at his official installation ceremony as Smithsonian Institution secretary. Several lawmakers and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts…

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