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To historians and archivists, it points to the possibility that Trump's presidency will leave less for the nation's ...
A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.
An artifact from Iowa State University, linked to George Washington Carver's rediscovery of Egyptian blue, was displayed at ...
Thomas Jefferson’s personally owned and signed copy of Cicero’s Ciceronis Oratione (“Orations”), in a six-volume set, acquired at auction directly from his personal library in 1829. Estimate: $150,000 ...
What was particularly thrilling was that the declaration of “act of solidarity” was not coming from a Democratic member of ...
I am related to a man who once knew a man who knew another man who knew George Washington. And to prove it, my family has a souvenir of the great relationship between the first President and that ...
But now, the Smithsonian is pushing back ... Brown described one of the artifacts — a book written by Rev. George Washington Williams in 1880 — as a “precious and most historic book ...
Aerial view of the Washington dig site with Fredericksburg visible on the horizon The George Washington Foundation Suffice it to say that the idea of historic preservation hadn't quite caught on ...
He described one of the books, written by Rev. George Washington Williams in 1880 ... Brown said he lent the artifacts to the Smithsonian in 2016. He said the museum always gave him the option ...
Franklin later bequeathed the cane to his friend and fellow revolutionary George Washington. The suit is in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; it is not on ...
Washington, DC, befitting of the nation's capital, is full of historical sites bearing a dark past, including this ...
Wonder, built by volunteers at Oshkosh 2022, is now on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center-next to aviation ...