Smithsonian Artifact Recovery Team
The Smithsonian Institution graduated a specially trained team designed to recover national treasures endangered by threats from extreme weather to war. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch ad…
261 viewsThe Smithsonian Institution graduated a specially trained team designed to recover national treasures endangered by threats from extreme weather to war. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch ad…
261 viewsFormer first lady Laura Bush discussed her memoir, Spoken from the Heart (Scribner; May 4, 2010), in conversation with journalist Cokie Roberts. Mrs. Bush began and ended by reading an excep…
1,296 viewsThe National Air and Space Museum marked its 40th anniversary. The event included remarks by Museum director General J.R. “Jack” Dailey and others.
1,166 viewsAt a groundbreaking ceremony for the new National Museum of African American History and Culture speakers included President Obama, the museum’s director, the secretary of the Smithsonian In…
6,228 viewsThe Smithsonian Institution hosted a ceremony to mark the one-year countdown to the November 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event included s…
1,949 viewsRichard Kurin, the Smithsonian Institution’s Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, toured the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and talked about eight ob…
473 viewsKarenna Gore Schiff was interviewed by her mother, Tipper Gore, about her book Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, published by Miramax Books. The book is about the liv…
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