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Civil rights pioneer
- 2008-04-07
Civil Rights Pioneer: Dorothy Irene Height, chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, sits in front of her storyboard featured in the "Freedom's Sisters" exhibition at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The Smithsonian traveling exhibit tells the story of 20 African-American women who helped shape the Civil...
Press Preview for 'Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses'
- 2007-03-16
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Leonda Levchuk, +1-202-633-6613, levchukl@si.edu, or Amy Drapeau, +1-202-633-6614, drapeaua@si.edu, both of the Smithsonian Institution WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Smithsonian Institution: WHAT: Press preview for the museum's new exhibition, "Identity by Design:Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses"WHEN:...
Choices are growing among women-only tour operators.(Going Places)(Trip tips)
- 2006-10-29
Byline: George Hobica and Kim Liang Tan Daily Herald Correspondents Lately there's been a glut of articles regarding "mancations": getaways for men only. Lest we forget about the other side of the coin, for many years several tour companies have offered vacations exclusively for...
Black History Month Offers Chance To Honor African-American Midwives Past And Present
- 2006-02-15
SILVER SPRING, Md., Feb. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Black History Month offers women and families a unique opportunity to pay tribute to Black midwives who preserve a cultural legacy of being "with women," said the Midwives of Color Committee of the American College of Nurse- Midwives ACNM. Those traditions and...
OKC Events November 22, 2004
- 2004-11-22
Maria von Trapp, one of the singing children immortalized in The Sound of Music, will be the featured guest at the inaugural Christmas concert of Providence Hall, a classical Christian school in Oklahoma City. Now 90 years of age, she will tell her family's story at 7 p.m....
Apologies for atrocities: commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II's end in the United States and Japan.
- 2004-06-01
The aftermath of the recent terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. and New York demonstrated the heroism of fire fighters, police officers, emergency medical personnel as well as volunteer workers. The tragedy also revealed how the imagery of World War II as well as the racial representation...
Powwow blends sacred and secular: thousands attended the first powwow on the National Mall to celebrate the National Museum of the American Indian and to immerse themselves in cultural traditions
- 2002-10-29
It was the first powwow ever held on the National Mall. Thousands of American Indians representing 223 tribes gathered in Washington in September to celebrate the National Museum of the American Indian, now under construction, which will be the newest addition to the Smithsonian Institution when it opens in the...
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...
Reflections on "African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of natural history
- 2001-06-22
Unless you know the road you have come down, you cannot know where you are going. --Temne proverb, Sierra Leone In December 1999 the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History celebrated the opening of "African Voices" (Fig. 1). It had kept its promise, made seven years earlier, to...
Rosie the Riveter: in her own words
- 2001-04-29
In 1943, Constance Bowman and Clara Marie (C.M.) Allen were young San Diego High School teachers looking for summer jobs that would satisfy their wartime patriotism but not get in the way of their suntans. They wound up on the swing shift at Convair, churning out B- 24 Liberators....
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