Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures will Debut at the NMAAHC March 2023
The Smithsonian announced that the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a major exhibition, Afrofuturism: […]
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Smithsonian Museum of African Art to Repatriate Looted Benin Artifacts
Last week the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art announced that it had removed all its Benin bronzes from display […]
Museum Day Returns September 18th
On September 18th Smithsonian Magazine will be holding its 17th annual Museum Day, during which people can visits thousands of […]
Virtual Exhibits Offer a Glimpse at the Future Latino Center Gallery
Established in 1997, the Smithsonian’s Latino Center promotes dialogue on the role of museums in Latino community development. However, don’t […]
Women's History Wing Added to New-York Historical Society; Museum to National Mall?
As N-YHS gets set to open its Center for Women’s History, a bi-partisan commission recommends building an American Museum of Women’s History.
Two Kings and the NMAAHC
By Mariam Williams
Not seeing black people as active participants in American history and its ongoing push toward democracy always has been a hurtful and angering thing to me. It says to black people—and especially to black children who have little, if any, control over their education—that they are irrelevant and that black people have deserved all race-based mistreatment they’ve received, past or present.
Reconstructing Reconstruction: Post-Bellum Public History in the Smithsonian and National Park Systems
The September 2016 opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture offers a timely opportunity to evaluate how existing branches of the Smithsonian represent the era of Reconstruction, a period about which public opinion “matters more than most historical subjects” because “it forces us to think about what kind of society we wish America to be,” according to historian Eric Foner in a March 2015 Op-Ed in the New York Times.
Controversy in Public History … Can We Move Beyond Relativism?
Public historians took a battering 20 years ago through highly public struggles over two Smithsonian exhibits.
Civil War Exhibits on Saturdays in DC
On Saturdays this summer, a free shuttle will take visitors to three Civil War exhibitions across Washington, D.C.
2015 Fredric Miller Lecture
Katherine Ott was the guest speaker for the seventeenth, and final, annual Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 10.