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Risen from the ashes
- 2007-06-16
THE LOST WORLD OF JAMES SMITHSON : SCIENCE, REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE SMITHSONIAN by Heather Ewing Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 432, ISBN 9780747576532 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Many of us Europeans have visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and most of us have...
National Trust to Announce America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places on Wednesday, May 10 at 10 A.M.
- 2006-05-09
News Advisory: WHAT: The National Trust for Historic Preservation will announce its annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places with a photo opportunity directly following the National Press Club announcement. This year's list includes historic sites in communities across the country that give testimony to the American experience....
First National Museum in U.S. Dedicated to Native Americans Opens
- 2004-09-22
Thousands of Native Americans from all across America, many in traditional ceremonial garb, are celebrating this week on the National Mall in Washington as the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian opens its doors to the public. Video Available You can reach the story directly by...
"Chop! chop!": progress in the presentation of western visual history.(frontier literature and art)
- 2004-09-22
DESPITE RECENT ATTEMPTS TO discard certain labels as misleading, market-driven contrivances reaching back to an earlier, formalist phase in art historical scholarship, the usage "western art" has proven resistant to change. J. Gray Sweeney, in exposing the pedigree of "luminism," a term that came into particular...
Where city life can be so sweet
- 2004-05-15
Ten years ago you'd have had to recruit a team of special agents to find a half decent restaurant in Washington DC. Because, despite being the capital of the United States of America, it was notable for its dreary dining. But I am pleased to report, after immersing...
Road trip.(news bytes)
- 2003-11-01
Want to walk on a section of the original Route 66 or board a 1950's Chicago Transit Authority car? "America on the Move" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., assembles some 300 transportation artifacts, including a 1949 Buick ...
Canada and the Americas.(Bibliography)
- 2003-11-01
In Sensory Worlds in Early America (John Hopkins University Press, 29.50 [pounds sterling]) Peter Charles Hoffer examines the impact not only of social and political circumstances, but of perception and sensation on events in Northern American colonial history. The First American Revolution:...
All that jazz! Middle/high students. (Book Mark It).(jazz web sites)
- 2003-06-01
MIDDLE/HIGH STUDENTS Ken Burns Jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/ As a companion to PBS's Ken Burns jazz special, this site explores slavery's influence on jazz, with an extensive biography section and a look at the geographical development of jazz in America. Students can learn...
Exhibit is powerful reminder of slave trade horror: revelations offer compelling evidence in favor of reparations
- 2003-03-14
The Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture in Washington recently opened an impressive exhibit on the gruesome story of how some 13 million Africans were brought in irons to Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States. The slave industry was international: Only 6...
Into the wild: for the first time in more than a century, the Smithsonian Institution will share artist George Catlin's enduring portrait of America in the 1830s, comprising his many captivating paintings of Indian tribes and landscapes of the untamed Wes
- 2002-09-30
The year 1826 was a big one in the life of 30-year-old George Catlin. Three years earlier he had sold his law books and abandoned a promising career in law to devote himself to art. He painted portraits, often in miniature, in Philadelphia. Sometimes he portrayed the great: Catlin's portrait...
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