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 ...
The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations ...
In 1620 an English mathematician and astronomer named Edmund Gunter described a surveyor's chain with 100 links, measuring 66 feet (22 yards or 4 poles) overall. By this design, one square chain ...
At the end of the 19th century, when ping-pong was coming into its own, the ball was generally made of string, rubber, or sometimes even a used champagne cork. It wasn’t until 1901, that James Gibb, ...
Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met ...
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 ...
Containers—steel boxes stuffed with goods—and the systems for transferring them between ships, trucks, and trains transformed commercial shipping. Containerization streamlined freight handling and ...
Railroads changed agriculture. As railways linked farms to a wider commercial world, farmers began to grow new crops for markets near and far. Vast wheat fields supplied flour for people around the ...
Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women ...
Americans have had a love affair with automobiles since their invention, but when automakers designed vehicles for the masses, they rarely considered the disabled community. Disabled Americans fought ...
George F. Green (1832-1892), a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich., invented the first pneumatic dental drill operated by means of compressed air. This example has an “E. R. E. Carpenter / Sole Agent / ...