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Title: Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham ; Presidents of the United States ; United States--History--19th century ; Biography ; Politics and government ; Portraits ; Artifact collections ; Caricature ; Assassinations ; Elections ; Science and technology ; Multimedia
Title: America On the Move
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Transportation ; Automobiles ; United States--Social history ; Travel and tourism ; Communities ; Railroads ; Urban planning ; Urban life ; Rural life ; Airline industry ; Shipping industry ; Ships ; Airplanes ; Teachers' resources
Title: The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--History ; Presidents of the United States ; Biography ; United States--Social history ; Time-lines
Title: America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Institution: Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--History--19th century ; United States--History--Civil War ; Lincoln, Abraham ; Presidents of the United States ; Manuscripts ; Politics and government ; Emancipation Proclamation ; Slavery ; Abolition ; African Americans ; Correspondence
Title: Artificial Anatomy: Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Anatomy ; Medicine ; Papier-mâché ; Conservation and preservation of museum artifacts ; Models and model-making
Title: Azucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Cruz, Celia ; Biography ; Women's history ; Latino Americans ; Music ; Portraits ; Cuba ; Afro-Caribbean culture ; Clothing and costume ; Spanish language ; Multimedia
Title: Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Medicine ; Advertisements ; Ephemera ; United States--Social history--19th and 20th centuries ; Business and corporate histories ; Graphic arts ; Pharmacy
Title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Labor ; Social reformers ; United States--Social history ; Business and corporate histories ; Clothing and costume ; Textile industry ; Oral histories ; Multimedia
Title: Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 / Cosecha Amarga Cosecha Dulce: El programa Bracero 1942-1964
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Mexican Americans ; Labor ; United States--Social history--20th century ; Mexico ; Communities ; Latino Americans ; Documentary photography ; Agriculture ; Rural life ; Trade unions ; Politics and government ; Poverty; Ethnic stereotyping;Spanish language
Title: Bon Appetit! Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Child, Julia ; Food ; Biography ; Women's history ; Home economics ; Cooking ; Chefs
Title: Building a National Collection: 150 Years of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Printing history ; Fine printing ; Smithsonian Institution ; Collectors and collecting
Title: Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and the March on Washington, 1963
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Civil rights ; Slavery ; African Americans ; United States--History ; Anniversaries ; Protests ; Emancipation Proclamation ; Social movements ; United States--History--Civil War ; Politics and government ; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Title: The Disability Rights Movement
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Persons with disabilities ; Social movements ; Human rights ; Protests ; United States--Social history ; Anniversaries ; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Title: Doubtless as Good: Thomas Jefferson's Dream for American Wines Fulfilled
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas ; Presidents of the United States ; Wine ; Food ; Agriculture
Title: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Ellington, Duke ; Strayhorn, Billy ; Biography ; Music ; Performing arts ; African Americans ; Jazz ; Composers ; United States--Social history--20th century ; Sheet music ; Sound recordings ; Multimedia
Title: Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Shaffer, Earl ; Appalachian Trail ; Mountains ; Recreation ; Biography ; Camping ; Diaries
Title: Edison After Forty
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Edison, Thomas Alva ; Biography ; Inventors ; Science and technology
Title: EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Persons with disabilities ; Social movements ; Public health ; Popular culture ; United States--Social history ; Portraits ; Inventions ; Medicine ; Science and technology ; Civil rights ; Artifact collections ; Spanish language
Title: Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Submarines ; Cold War ; Science and technology ; Nuclear engineering ; Weapons ; United States--History--20th century ; Shipbuilding industry ; Soldiers
Title: The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Natural history ; Wildlife conservation ; Clothing and costume ; Audubon societies ; United States--Social history ; Birds ; Social movements
Title: Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Muybridge, Eadweard ; Photography ; Locomotion ; Cinematography ; Art ; Science
Title: Holidays on Display
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Holidays ; Christmas ; Department stores ; Advertisements ; Business and corporate histories ; Interior decoration ; Show windows ; Parades ; Design process ; Urban life ; Signs and symbols ; Transportation ; Architecture ; Popular culture
Title: Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
Institution: Smithsonian Institution, in partnership with the Virginia Historical Society, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the Palace of the Governors in New Mexico / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Jamestown, Virginia ; Santa Fe, New Mexico ; Quebec, Canada ; Colonial history ; Exploration--North America ; Indians of North America ; Immigrant histories ; Frontiers ; Pioneer life ; International relations ; Politics and government ; Wars
Title: July 1942: United We Stand
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: World War II ; Advertisements ; Graphic arts ; Posters ; United States--Social history--20th century ; Flags
Title: Lighting a Revolution
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Electricity ; Edison, Thomas A. ; Inventors ; Scientific discoveries and experiments ; Physics ; Lights and lighting ; Advertisements
Title: Magic Lanterns, Magic Mirrors: A Centennial Salute to Cinema
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Motion pictures ; Broadsides
Title: A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Japanese Americans ; Constitution (United States) ; United States--History--20th century ; Politics and government ; Internment camps ; World War II ; Racism ; Civil rights ; Military history ; Immigrant histories ; Trials ; Oral histories ; Multimedia
Title: The Norie Marine Atlas & the Guano Trade
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Atlases ; Geography ; Maps ; Travel and tourism ; Norie, John W. ; Map-makers ; Navigation ; Guano industry ; Birds ; United States--Politics and government--19th century ; Artifact collections
Title: On the Water
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--Social history ; Maritime history ; Voyages ; Whaling industry ; Fishing ; Water ; Labor ; Shipwrecks ; Weather ; Titanic (Ship) ; Military history ; Pirates ; Popular culture ; Music ; Songs ; Rivers ; Artifact collections ; Multimedia
Title: Our Story: American History Stories and Activities You Can Do Together!
Institution: Smithsonian Institution, in partnership with the National Center for Family Literacy / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--History ; Children's books ; Games ; Biography ; Teachers' resources ; American literature ; American art ; Ethnic diversity ; Performing arts ; Time-lines
Title: Paint By Number
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Painting ; American arts and crafts ; United States--Social history--20th century ; Popular culture
Title: Photographing History: Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Nixon, Richard M. ; Presidents of the United States ; United States--History--20th century ; Maroon, Fred J. ; Photojournalism ; Politics and government ; Watergate Controversy
Title: The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Wars ; Military history ; United States--History ; United States--Social history ; Time-lines ; Soldiers ; International relations ; Weapons ; United States Army ; United States Navy ; United States Air Force ; United States Marine Corps ; Multimedia
Title: Printing Matrices for Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) ; Scientific illustration ; Scientific expeditions ; Voyages ; Natural history ; Exploration ; Engravings ; Printing history ; Woodblocks ; Lithography ; Anthropology
Title: Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front, 1941-45
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Posters ; United States--History--20th century ; World War II ; Labor ; United States--Social history
Title: Project HOPE: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Medicine ; Public health ; Physicians ; Voyages ; International relations ; Hospitals
Title: Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ; Law and legal literature ; United States--History--20th century ; Civil rights ; African Americans ; Supreme Court (United States) ; Racial segregation ; Social movements ; Portraits; Teachers' resources
Title: September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 ; Terrorism ; United States--History--21st century ; World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) ; Pentagon (Arlington, Va.) ; Shanksville, Pennsylvania ; Disasters ; Patriotism ; Multimedia ; Posters ; Scrapbooks
Title: Slates, Slide Rules, and Software: Teaching Math in America
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Mathematics ; Education ; United States--Social history ; Scientific instruments ; Cold War ; Geometry ; Teachers' resources
Title: The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Star-Spangled Banner ; Flags ; United States--History ; United States--Social history ; Textile conservation ; Textiles ; Signs and symbols
Title: Taking America to Lunch
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--Social history ; Food ; Lunchboxes ; Popular culture
Title: Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pennsylvania) ; Local history ; United States--History--20th century ; Nuclear power plants ; Disasters ; Maps ; Science and technology ; Nuclear engineering
Title: Treasures of American History
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: United States--History ; United States--Social history ; Popular culture ; Biography ; Inventions ; Science and technology ; Presidents of the United States ; Entertainers
Title: A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal Collection
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Puerto Rico ; Vidal, Teodoro ; Collectors and collecting ; Social history ; Religion ; Festivals ; Music ; Biography ; Folklife ; Colonial history ; Slavery ; Labor ; Agriculture ; Catholic Church ; Sculpture ; Masks ; Maps ; Multimedia ; Spanish language
Title: A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965-1971
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Law, Lisa ; Photographers ; 1960s ; Popular culture ; United States--Social history
Title: Vote!: The Machinery of Democracy
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Elections ; Democracy ; United States--History ; Science and technology ; Constitution (United States) ; Politics and government ; United States--Social history ; Suffrage ; Civil rights ; United States presidential election, 2000 ; Maps
Title: The Washington Salon and Art Photographic Exhibition of 1896 and the Beginning of a National Collection
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Photography ; Smithsonian Institution ; Museums
Title: West Point in the Making of America
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: West Point, New York ; United States Military Academy ; Local history ; United States--History ; Military history ; Wars ; Education ; Engineering ; Exploration--Western United States ; Portraits ; Statesmen and stateswomen ; College and university life
Title: Whatever Happened to Polio?
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Polio ; Diseases ; Medicine ; United States--History--20th century ; Epidemics ; Social history ; Public health ; Physicians ; Nurses and nursing ; March of Dimes ; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano ; Persons with disabilities ; Time-lines ; Social movements
Title: What's Cooking? Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Child, Julia ; Food ; Biography ; Women's history ; Home economics ; Cooking ; Chefs ; Smithsonian Institution ; Museums ; Multimedia ; Oral histories
Title: Within These Walls …
Institution: Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of American History, Behring Center (United States)
Location: United States / Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Family histories ; Architecture ; United States--Social history ; Home building industry ; Neighborhoods