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	Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture
		The legislation also established a National Museum of African American History and Culture Council to advise the Smithsonian Regents on museum issues including, recommendations on the planning, design and construction of the museum; the administration of the museum; and acquisition of objects for the museum’s collections.
		The National Museum of African American History and Culture was established on Dec. 19, 2003, when President Bush signed into law legislation establishing the museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
		The new museum will be the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history and culture.
	nmaahc.si.edu (489 words)

	Lemelson Center: Archives: Western Union Collection
		In January, 1971, Western Union officials proposed a transfer of the Western Union Museum to the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) under an indefinite loan agreement in the hopes of making the materials more readily available for exhibition purposes and for use by historians.
		The collection is useful for researchers interested in the development of technology, economic history, and the impact of technology on American social and cultural life.
		To fully detail the history of the telegraph, many original instruments were borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution and replicated.
	invention.smithsonian.org /resources/fa_wu_index.aspx (9437 words)

	Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
		First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image was developed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Behring Center, and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
		Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.
		"The African American Presidents" is a history of African American men who rose from humble beginnings in the United States to forge and lead the nation of Liberia, the first Republic in Africa.
	carterlibrary.galileo.peachnet.edu (508 words)

	Smithsonian Press--Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
		Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian, a new book from Smithsonian Institution Press, features over 250 objects from the National Museum of American History's collections, revealing the stories of how and why they were collected.
		The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has over 3.2 million objects in its collections.
		In this virtual exhibit, a companion to the book, you can explore these objects, learn their stories, and discover changing ideas about American history and identity.
	www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu (131 words)

	IBM Deep Blue shifted to museum
		IBM said that it had donated one of the two refrigerator-sized computing towers that made up its Deep Blue supercomputer to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
		Garry Kasparov’s on board nightmare, the Deep Blue that beat him in a game of chess will now be shifted to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
		The computer, which had 500 microprocessors that were tweaked to perform a mind-numbing number of chess calculations, toppled Kasparov, the world's best human chess player, in 1997.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/repts/102102601.asp (382 words)

	Smithsonian Jazz Class - Educational programs featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louie Armstrong, Benny Carter, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, SJMO
		The American Music collections at the National Museum of American History documents America's diverse popular and musical tradition and performances.
		The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's oral history program, and nearly one thousand photographs in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections, are an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore.
		It holds the The Duke Ellington Archives which you can tour on the Duke Ellington Virtual exhibit and The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music containing images, music, and lyrics of American life and culture between 1790 and the 1980s.
	smithsonianjazz.org /rcollections/rc_start.asp (284 words)

	The_Anacostia_Museum_&_Center_for_African_American_History_and_Culture
		Wednesday, 12/21/05 1:57 PM s the Smithsonian Institution's museum of African American history and culture, the Museum explores American history, society, and creative expression from an African American perspective.
		The museum encourages the collection, protection, and preservation of materials that reflect the history and traditions of families, organizations, individuals, and communities.
		The On-line Academy is a virtual learning environment that features links to resources, information on artifacts in our collections, and streaming video presentations from leading scholars in fields related to the discovery, interpretation, and preservation of African American history and material culture.
	anacostia.si.edu (143 words)

	The September 11 Digital Archive
		George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, organized this project.
		Submissions will be permanently archived in the September 11 Digital Archive in conjunction with the National Museum of American History's exhibition, "September 11: Bearing Witness to History" which is now on a national tour.
		The September 11 Digital Archive was funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
	911digitalarchive.org (436 words)

	Information Age: People, Information & Technology
		These photographs are from the exhibition, Information Age: People, Information and Technology in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
		Robots in American car plants are often part of an elaborate computer network that controls all parts of the production process, from ordering parts to painting.
		But in one of the best-kept secrets of the war, first the Poles, and later the British and Americans succeeded in deciphering messages.
	photo2.si.edu /infoage/infoage.html (1147 words)

	Smithsonian Jazz - A Jazz portal intended to preserve and promote one of America's greatest art forms - Jazz
		It serves as the jazz orchestra in residence at the National Museum of American History.
		Displays on Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and women in jazz are on view on the 3rd floor, west end, of the National Museum of American History.
		Jazz exhibits at the National Museum of American History, Behring Center
	www.smithsonianjazz.org (192 words)

	Guide to Smithsonian Institution Archives, Libraries & Special Collections
		The National Museum of the American Indian has two resource centers: one at the Cultural Resources Center (Suitland, Maryland), and the other at the George Gustav Heye Center (New York City).
		The Photo Archives at the Museum of the American Indian has over 125,000 images comprising one of the foremost collections of images of Native American culture and history.
		The scope of the collections is expanding to include materials from Native American perspectives that will complement the already rich ethnographies and records of acquisitions.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /naa/siasc/nmai.htm (380 words)

	Piano 300 Exhibition at the Smithsonian
		The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History -- in collaboration with other institutions and organizations -- presents a large-scale project called PIANO 300, celebrating the birth of the piano and its three hundred years of influence.
		Produced by the National Museum of American History
		The exhibition is open from March 9, 2000 through October 21, 2001 in Washington, D.C. To assist you in planning your visit, we have available museum hours, accessibility information, maps, public transportation and hotel information.
	piano300.si.edu (176 words)

	H-Museum : September 11 - Day of Remembrance
		(Museum of the City of New York / Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
		Soon after September 11, the National Museum of American History began collecting objects to document the attacks and their aftermath.
		The Museum of the City of New York, like all New Yorkers, was deeply affected by the attack on the World Trade Center.
	www.h-museum.net /september11.html (609 words)

	Star Spangled Banner
		In 1964, when the Museum of American History opened, the flag was moved to a prominent place inside the museum's Mall entrance, an awe-inspiring testament to our nation's independence.
		The flag had become a popular attraction; in 1912, the owner, Eben Appleton, of New York, believing that the flag should be kept in the National Museum, donated it to the Smithsonian on the condition that it would remain there forever.
		When Commodore George H. Preble, U.S. Navy, was preparing a history of the American flag, he borrowed the Star-Spangled Banner from a descendant of Colonel Armistead, and, in 1873, photographed it for the first time.
	www.150.si.edu /chap3/flag.htm (749 words)

	The National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution
		In June 2005, the museum received one of the largest plant fossils ever collected - 3.9 m (13 ft) long and 3.7 m (12 ft) high, and weighing more than 16 tons.
		The fossil comes from an Iowa coal mine and was donated to the Smithsonian by the University of Iowa.
		Natural History is dedicated to understanding the natural world
	www.mnh.si.edu (384 words)

	Save America's Treasures - Project Profile
		This flag, now known as the Star-Spangled Banner and on display at the National Museum of American History, was made by Mrs.
		A history of the flag and its display and preservation at the Smithsonian.
		To help ensure the continued preservation for the Star-Spangled Banner, the Museum has embarked on a six-year program of examination, treatment, and preservation of this priceless American icon.
	www.saveamericastreasures.org /profiles/banner.htm (679 words)

	20th Century Decades: General Links
		The National Museum of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has mounted a wonderful exhibition of poster art through American history.
		This is a set of different digital collections of information based on a wide range of topics and themes in American history.
		A History of Mexican Americans in California: THE CHICANO MOVEMENT
	dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us /decsg.html (1552 words)

	And there she goes -- into a national museum IndyStar.com
		Recognizing the decline, National Museum of American History curator David Shayt thought the Smithsonian should acquire an artifact from this dowager of beauty pageants.
		Then, 1951's Miss America, Yolande Betbeze Fox, contacted the museum and offered not only her crown but also her scepter and Miss America sash.
		And there she goes -- into a national museum
	www.indystar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/LIVING/601150343/1007/LIVING (840 words)

	A Centennial Salute To Cinema
		From an exhibition produced by the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
		To mark this centennial, we celebrate and salute moving pictures with this selection of early equipment, posters, and photographs from the Museum collections.
		By 1895 the first projected motion pictures were delighting audiences the world over.
	photo2.si.edu /cinema/cinema.html (320 words)

	NPR : Plans for a Smithsonian African-American Museum
		News & Notes with Ed Gordon, June 14, 2005 · Lonnie Bunch, director of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, discusses plans for a Smithsonian African-American Museum.
		Bunch says the museum plans to exhibit an array of objects, including the lunch counter from the legendary Woolworth sit-in in Greensboro, NC.
		The Smithsonian has not released a date for the museum opening.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4702650&sourceCode=RSS (143 words)

	Smithsonian Institution Archives
		The Smithsonian Institution Archives houses the records of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the National Portrait Gallery.
		For example, if it is an Amish quilt, you could contact the National Museum of American History.
		The National Anthropological Archives and the National Museum of the American Indian both have large collections of photographs documenting Native American life and culture.
	siarchives.si.edu /research/main_faq.html (143 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
		Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly known as the National Museum of American Art.) Its Renwick Gallery is now called the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
		The collection was then incorporated into the Smithsonian and parts of it were placed on view in a special hall in the National Museum of Natural History when it opened in 1909; the rest was stored or lent to government offices throughout Washington.
		Called the National Gallery of Art from 1907 to 1937 and the National Collection of Fine Arts until 1980, the museum's name was changed to the National Museum of American Art in 1980 to reflect its decades-old policy of acquiring only American art.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/mr/20560-09.htm (143 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Art, Design, and Crafts
		National Museum of American History : A variety of crafts and decorative arts are displayed throughout the museum.
		Smithsonian Museum of American Art : American modern and contemporary art.
		Smithsonian Museum of American Art : Painting, sculpture, graphics, folk art, and photography.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/art.htm (143 words)

	ARTSEDGE: WebLinks
		The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History provides access to hundreds of museum artifacts, accompanied by informative descriptions.
		Part of the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum collection, This Land Through a Lens traces America's fascination with the land through the works of photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, Ansel Adams, and William Christenberry.
		This site, from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, explores the art of Mali and provides information on the geography and history of Mali, educational resources, and images from the museum's collection.
	www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org /teach/wlk.cfm (143 words)

	UCR News: UC Riverside Historian Celebrates National Museum of the American Indian
		Located between the Air and Space Museum and the nation’s Capitol, this will be the last of the Smithsonian museums dotted along the National Mall in Washington D.C. “This is recognition, finally, of the importance of Native American history,” Trafzer said.
		UC Riverside Historian Celebrates National Museum of the American Indian
		Other institutional resources include the Rupert Costo Library of American Indian History, one of the largest collections of research materials relating to Native Americans in the nation, and the proposed Center for California Native Nations.
	www.newsroom.ucr.edu /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=877&type=email (682 words)

	National Museum of the American Indian Opens in Washington, D.C.
		At the National Museum of American History, the author of every label is identified, informing visitors that they are reading the interpretation of an individual curator or community member and letting them draw their own conclusions about the validity of that viewpoint.
		On September 21, 2004, the National Museum of the American Indian, the 18th Smithsonian museum, opened to the public.
		Native Americans traveled from throughout the Americas for the opening ceremonies, which featured a procession on the National Mall by 25,000 representatives of 500 different tribes and a week-long festival of music, dance, and storytelling.
	www.historians.org /Perspectives/Issues/2004/0411/0411new2.cfm (624 words)

	The_Anacostia_Museum_&_Center_for_African_American_History_and_Culture
		Tuesday, 7/12/05 2:40 PM s the Smithsonian Institution's museum of African American history and culture, the Museum explores American history, society, and creative expression from an African American perspective.
		The museum encourages the collection, protection, and preservation of materials that reflect the history and traditions of families, organizations, individuals, and communities.
		The On-line Academy is a virtual learning environment that features links to resources, information on artifacts in our collections, and streaming video presentations from leading scholars in fields related to the discovery, interpretation, and preservation of African American history and material culture.
	anacostia.si.edu (624 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian..."
		This program is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation.
		To celebrate American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month in November, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City will host a variety of free public programs, including lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations, films and more.
		Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Celebrates American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=55898 (607 words)

	smithsonian.html
		Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Library
		African American History and Culture, Anacostia Museum and Center for
		Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture Library
	info-s.com /smithsonian.html (607 words)

	Zeek Tribal Lessons: A Jewish Perspective on the National Museum of the American Indian
		Even the architecture suggests this: The flowing lines of the massive building--next to the National Botanical Gardens and roughly at the foot of the U.S. Capitol--contrast sharply with the rigid, classical lines of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the historical home on the Mall of artifacts related to Native American cultures.
		The Smithsonian--a museum synonymous with institutional history--has turned the idea of a museum on its head.
		Bereft of their own voice, Native Americans have had to acquiesce to the representations of them in school textbooks and museums like the NMNH, where they are mute objects of taxonomies rather than living subjects in possession of their own perspectives.
	www.zeek.net /art_0505.shtml (962 words)

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