To mark World AIDS Day, Katherine Ott takes us back almost 40 years when all hell broke loose as people began to sicken and die from a mysterious and frightening disease that became a global pandemic. Continue reading Silence = Death: The beginning of the epidemic
The Smithsonian community has created a block for the AIDS Memorial Quilt that honors our colleagues lost to this disease. It is on display in the Ripley Center through February. Continue reading Creativity and Crisis: The Smithsonian AIDS Memorial Quilt Block
The AIDS Memorial Quilt will unfold at the Folklife Festival this summer and you can help curate what is displayed. Continue reading The AIDS Memorial Quilt will unfold at this year’s Folklife Festival
Come for the ingenuity and stay for the scandal on this episode of Sidedoor as as we find out how Eadweard Muybridge changed the course of photographic history. Continue reading Sidedoor: Inventor, Photographer…Murderer
Secretary Skorton considers America's complicated relationship with Native Americans and helps set the record straight on a meal that was more of a snack than a feast. Continue reading The Invention of Thanksgiving
Kris Hamilton introduces Jim Peterson, who volunteers with the Smithsonian Call Center and at the National Museum of Natural History. Continue reading Volunteer Spotlight: Jim Peterson
This week was marked by news from across the pond and from right in our own backyard. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week that was Oct. 28 – Nov. 3, 2018
December 13, 1847. The Board of Regents votes to get organized. We're still waiting. Continue reading Today in Smithsonian History: December 13, 1847
