History / Video
The Books of Thomas Jeffersons Library
Jeffersons respect for the enlightenment ideals of memory, reason and imagination shaped how he organized his library (Video: Molly Roberts). Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/on-the-hunt-for-jeffersons-lost-books-38566672/
Visiting Lafcadio Hearns Japan
The temples and scenery of Japans San-in coast are as captivating now as they were when Lafcadio Hearn wrote about them in the 19th century (Produced by: Brendan McCabe; Narration …
FDR: The Stamp Collector in Chief
Read more about FDR at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/From-the-Castle-FDRs-Stamps.html A stamp collector since childhood, Franklin Roosevelt designed postage stamps to help promote his presidential agenda.
Through her television shows, Julia Child shared her love for culinary arts with the world.
Tour Through Inaugurations Past
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Inauguration-2009.html Two curators from the American History Museum show the highlights of the archives of inauguration relics.
American History Museum Transformed
A step-by-step tour of the renovation of the National Museum of American History (Narration by Beth Py-Lieberman / Edited by Ryan Reed and Brian Wolly)
Victory Mail allowed servicemen during World War II to transmit letters to their loved ones back home quickly and easily (National Postal Museum). Read more at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/before-email-there-was-v-mail-1-180949023/
Senior historian Sid Hart discusses the highlights of the National Portrait Gallerys Hall of Presidents. (Filmed and Edited by Ryan Reed / Produced by Beth Py-Lieberman, Megan Gambino and Jesse …
Visitors to the National Portrait Gallery share their presidential thoughts on the eve of Election Day (Video by Ryan Reed / Edited by Ryan Reed and Jesse Rhodes / Interviews …
Puerto Rican Propaganda-Dramas
The Puerto Rican governments Division of Community Education (Divedco) enlisted famous artists to make poster art and short films regarding social issues
Counting Down for the Liftoff to the Moon
Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to Florida in 1969 to watch the launch of Apollo 11 (Produced by Molly Roberts; Photographs by David …
Home Movies of the Patton Family
The grandson of Gen. George S. Patton shares his family’s home movies
Watch a video about the Viking ship replicas construction and first voyage
The researchers place a white “X” on one side of Happy’s head. When Happy sees the “X” in the mirror, she repeatedly touches the mark with her trunk
In the Footsteps of Lincoln’s Assassin
Tom Cavanagh, host of Smithsonian Channel’s award winning series “Stories from the Vaults,” joins Civil War historian Ed Bearss to retrace John Wilkes Booth’s steps in the days surrounding his …
Three Years After “We Will Bury You,” Nikita Khrushchev Tours America
Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.html As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California.
A Navy Plebe Re-Meets His Match
Photojournalist Lucian Perkins reunites Naval Academy graduates Sandee Irwin and Don Holcomb, 30 years after his photo captured the new gender dynamics at the school (Photography Interview and Production by …
Fifty years ago, the Amazon comprised 14 percent of the Earth’s surface. Now, it covers just 6 percent.
Charles Babbage’s Difference Machine No. 2
The first computer is thought to be the invention of a 19th century mathematician
Videos from the 1950s show architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the site of the Guggenheim Museum
The Historic Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires
Take in the sights and sounds of the European influences of Argentina’s capital city (Produced by: Brendan McCabe). Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/daniel-politi-on-hola-buenos-aires-138874294/
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement’s most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read …
Uncovering the Terra Cotta Soldiers
A curator from the Houston Museum of Natural Science explains how the terra cotta warriors were discovered and what they reveal about Chinas Qin dynasty
Underwater Archaeology in Pensacola Bay
Researchers from the University of West Florida are slowly uncovering the remains of a 16th-century shipwreck of a Spanish galleon in the shallow, murky waters near Pensacola
The John Marshall Ju/’hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000
Watch a selection from the Smithsonian Institution’s submission for the UNESCO Memory of the World Register of historic artifacts
Fly through, and over, ancient Rome’s winding streets, broad plazas, forumseven its most famous monuments
New technologies helped marine archaeologists recover the H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine
Watch one of Amelia Earhart’s final takeoffs, July 2, 1937
See President Johnson withdraw from the 1968 race
Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, thought in images, as this clip from his early 1960s piece “Cat and Mouse” exemplifies. Henson’s prolific mind is celebrated in the new Smithsonian …
Learn about the history of wild rice and the Ojibwa
Anna Coleman Ladd fits soldiers for masks in her studio
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