Brandie Smith, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Xie Feng announced at Zoo that giants pandas will …
3 viewsNASA 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…
135 viewsGrammy 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…
633 viewsThe 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…
270 viewsAmerican 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…
2,388 viewsVice 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…
1,034 viewsFirst lady Jill Biden donated her inaugural dresses to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
703 viewsThe 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…
574 viewsPresident 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…
434 viewsSmithsonian 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…
153 viewsSpencer 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…
1,067 viewsThe “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…
2,023 viewsHistorian 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.…
344 viewsHistorian 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…
948 viewsAlexandra Lord, medicine and science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, discussed the museum’s coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
524 viewsJames 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…
266 viewsJoan 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…
1,252 viewsKay 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 …
172 viewsWe 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…
1,585 viewsColonial historian Mary Beth Norton looked at the year 1774, the lead-up to and the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
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