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 ...

Join us Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, 2024, for a series of food history programs. Organized around the theme, “Ten Years of the Julia Child Award: Education, Advocacy, and Community,” the cooking ...

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 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 Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection (NNC) is America's collection of monetary and transactional objects. This diverse and expansive global collection contains objects that represent every ...

The La Croy Sisters. side 1: Waltz of Broken Vows; side 2: Waltz of the Wind (Columbia 20839). 78 rpm. This group is comprised of Helen LaCroix (Chance), Inez LaCroix (Haynes, and Ann LaCroix (Annie ...

The Dutch Sugar Standard consisted of a set of glass jars, each containing a different sugar, that could be used to determine where a sample stood on the continuum from raw to refined. This jar is No.

Souvenir fan commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Fan has a bird pattern. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was an assertive statement about American ...