NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH "Entertainment Nation”/”Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture ...

More than just waging a war of independence, American revolutionaries took a great leap of faith and established a new government based on the sovereignty of the people. It was truly a radical idea ...

A visitor using one of the exhibition's interactive displays Are you a student or a teacher? Bring the histories, objects, and ideas that inform American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith into your ...

Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students sat down at this Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Politely ...

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the ...

Soon after the United States entered World War II, the federal government decided that bicycles should be brought under consumer manufacturing guidelines so that they might support conservation ...

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Looking for ideas and other ways to celebrate jazz during April and year-round? Find the category that best suits you or your organization and read through some of our favorite ways to celebrate and ...

The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. Miners faced death from collapsing mines, oxygen deprivation, and haulage ...

Props from the 1926 adventure film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. These props include: a bronze and leather torso armor, brass helmet with a red plume, sword and scabbard, and crossed spears. Francis ...

Upon entering this exhibition, visitors are immersed in the Battle of Baltimore, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write his famous lyrics. The 200-year-old, 30-by-34-foot flag is displayed in a ...

Jack Kilby’s demonstration of the first working integrated circuit (IC) in 1958 revolutionized the field of microelectronics. Instead of using discrete transistors, resistors, and capacitors to form a ...