National Museum of American History

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/23/2021
  

  National Museum of American History Announces African American History Curatorial Collective

  “African American history is inextricably central to U.S. history, and our growing curatorial team forms an essential force in creating innovative, essential interpretive approaches at a time when cascading crises have shown us how race-based disparities continue to exist,” director Anthea Hartig said.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/9/20
  

  National Museum of American History Marks 2020 as “Year of the Woman”

  Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage With Exhibitions

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/8/2019
  

  Smithsonian interested in obtaining migrant children's drawings depicting their time in US custody

  "The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum

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• SOURCE: AHA
  9-12-14
  

  Hard Hats On: Members of the Media Tour Exhibits under Construction at the National Museum of American History

  “The difference between what museums used to do and what they do today is we actively engage the visitor in their experience. It’s not a passive experience.”

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• SOURCE: The Smithsonian Institution Archives
  1-23-14
  

  Happy 50th Anniversary National Museum of American History

  The first modern building on the National Mall, the new museum opened with ten exhibit halls completed, with an additional fifty opening in the following years.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-7-13
  

  Richard G. Doty, money expert and Smithsonian curator, dies at 71

  Richard G. Doty, a scholar of money who helped humanize coins and currency by showing how the objects might reflect the culture, values and history of a society, died June 2 at the Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church. He was 71.The cause was complications from lymphoma, said his wife, Cindi Roden.At the time of his death, Dr. Doty was the senior numismatic curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. “He was really a historian, more than a numismatic,” said Ute Wartenberg Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society. “He interpreted the coins, and that made him very special.”...

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-19-13
  

  Smithsonian’s American history museum begins creating archive on US farming, innovation

  WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is collecting stories about agriculture innovations for a future exhibition on American business.The museum is launching a web portal Tuesday for people to share stories, photographs and materials about innovations that changed farming. The museum also is accepting items already donated by farmers in Illinois, Tennessee and California for a new agriculture archive....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  1-14-13
  

  National Museum of American History seeks help building collection showing farm innovations

  WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History working with farmers to build a new collection showing the evolution of modern agriculture.The museum announced Monday that it’s working with the American Farm Bureau Federation to collect items that reflect innovation in farming and ranching over the past 70 years. Curators are seeking stories, photographs and objects for a future exhibition.The first donation was announced by a Tennessee farmer at the farm bureau’s annual meeting in Nashville. A multigenerational dairy will donate a computer cow tag system and photographs to show how the dairy became a modernized operation.The museum will open a web portal in March to collect stories and photographs online....