Join us Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, for a series of food history programs. Organized around the theme, “Ten Years of the Julia Child Award: Education, Advocacy, and Community,” the cooking ...

Julia Child’s home kitchen serves as the opening story for the exhibition Food: Transforming the American Table.

National Museum of American History Celebrates 10th Annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend and Gala Oct. 17–19 Alice Waters ...

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

Bernice Johnson Reagon’s life offers us lessons to navigate an unjust world and work toward change. From her role as a Civil Rights activist to her transformative curatorial position at the ...

An immense clock, 13 feet tall, towers over visitors to the American Democracy exhibition in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. More striking than its size, though, are its ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has accepted the donation of the papers of the late inventor Jerome H. Lemelson, a gift from the Dorothy Lemelson Trust. The Jerome H. Lemelson ...

The National Numismatic Collection is comprised of approximately 1.6 million objects and is thought to be the largest money collection in the world. Its diverse holdings represent every inhabited ...

Red, white, and blue Jacquard woven or Figured and Fancy coverlet in single weave. Double roses motifs framed by cut-cornered rectangles regularly repeated in bands and rows; separated by rows of dots ...

Q-Ban Hair Tonic was produced by Q-Ban Hair Laboratories, Hessig-Ellis Drug Company of Memphis, Tenn. The Q-Ban trademark was registered by the company in 1919, but they claimed to have been producing ...