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Adjusting the Lens: Documentaries
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Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette
Published: 21 December 2012
... the programs launched by the National Geographic Society and the project initiated by The Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of S. Dillon Ripley. documentaries Mackenzie John K networks broadcasting development of ABC American Broadcasting Company Bluem William CBS Columbia Broadcasting System...
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How the West Was Known
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Cameron B. Strang
Published: 13 August 2018
...Although the Second Seminole War marked the effective end of the Gulf South as a borderland, encounters instigated by imperialism in the Southwest continued to affect the pursuit of knowledge in America. The rise of the Smithsonian Institution and the extension of U.S. governance into the West were...
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Cultural Intervention in America’s Eden
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Heather A. Diamond
Published: 03 June 2008
...This chapter traces the history of cultural intervention in traditional arts in Hawaiʻi. It first looks at the 1989 Festival of American Folklife, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, and how it fit into ongoing negotiations over ethnographic authority. It then considers how, at the end...
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Flat, White Nothingness?
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Finis Dunaway
Published: 17 May 2021
... of Sciences CAS Hull Gail Press Democrat Arctic Village grassroots action Gwich’in Gathering Gwich’in representatives James Sarah Lannan Foundation trickle up theory Subhankar Banerjee photography Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History censorship Gwich’in Iñupiat caribou...
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The United States Exploring Expedition in Popular Culture
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Michael A. Verney
Published: 01 August 2022
... about the Exploring Expedition and by founding the nation’s first publicly funded museum of natural history at the National Gallery (a predecessor for the Smithsonian Institution), Wilkes and his collaborators popularized global imperialism in the early republic. By the 1850s, the literate and touristic...
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“O Death, Where is Thy Sting?”
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Paul C. Gutjahr
Published: 02 March 2011
... Smithsonian Institution Supreme Court Washington D C Wheeler William A Atwater Lyman H Hodge Mary Elizabeth Nassau Hall Presbyterian Church Princeton College Westminster Catechism Westminster Confession Edwards Jonathan Miller Samuel Witherspoon John Charles Hodge Princeton Seminary Archibald...
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Setting the Stage
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David J. Meltzer
Published: 03 November 2015
... Frederic Ward Short John St Acheul France Georges Cuvier extinct Ice Age animals Louis Agassiz glacial deposits Pleistocene Smithsonian Institution Joseph Henry Native Americans European Paleolithic IN THE WINTER OF 1861 Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian Institution’s first secretary, was besieged...
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Special Courses in Human Skeletal Paleopathology
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Donald J. Ortner and others
Published: 07 June 2012
...Figure 69.1: Participants in the Smithsonian Institution course on paleopathology held in 1985: 1. Rose A. Tyson, 2. Gillian Stroud, 3.Dale McCall, 4.Leslie Eisenberg, 5. Jose Manuel Reverte, 6. Anna Siniarska, 7. Takao Suzuki, 8. Catryn Power, 9. Denise Hodges, 10. Ethne Barnes, 11. Nancy C...
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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
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David N. Livingstone (ed.) and Charles W. J. Withers (ed.)
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 15 July 2011
... of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space...
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Published online: 15 December 2022
Published in print: 17 January 2023
...To Pamela Regis Preface Between 1962 and 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, whose foundational mission was to promote the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, undertook a large- scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. This would turn out...
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Claude Kennedy
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Harry Bolick and others
Published: 30 September 2021
... of Mississippi. In usual Mississippi networking fashion, they had been recommended for the performance by one of Claude’s cousins, who had a relative working for the Smithsonian. Kennedy Claude Six Towns Band Smithsonian Folklife Festival fiddle contests Magee Jack Mendenhall Simpson County Smithsonian...
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The Leake County String Band
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Harry Bolick and others
Published: 30 September 2021
... Sanders Haywood Alford Robert Freeny’s Barn Dance Band Mississippi Sawyers LP Newton County Hill Billies Autry Gene Grand Old Opry pound supper Rodgers Jimmie “Mississippi Shuffle” George Gilmer Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folk life Ode to Billie Joe (film) Carlton Freeny...
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Public History and Asian Americans
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Franklin Odo
Published: 07 March 2016
.... These provide the major venues through which history becomes part of our memories. A short section on theory and major works on memory and memorials is followed by a personal reflection on history making in several major institutions in which the author worked: the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress...
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Attaining Primacy
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William O. Walker
Published: 15 October 2018
... from Indochina), and the meeting at the Smithsonian Institution in December 1971 to restore America’s global economic stature, they attempted to achieve U.S. primacy in world affairs. Their efforts to implement the novel grand strategy of strategic globalism fell short, as seen in the difficulty...
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Elementary Education, Basic Economics
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Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette
Published: 21 December 2012
... of Science (AAAS) and The Smithsonian Institution. Baxter Frank C closed circuit broadcasting educational television Mindel Joseph NBC National Broadcasting Company New York City Board of Education Your World Tomorrow Federal Communications Commission FCC Gould Jack Joint Committee on Educational...
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In Splendid Isolation: The Public’s Television
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Marcel Chotkowski Lafollette
Published: 21 December 2012
...This chapter examines the influence of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the television broadcasting of science in the United States, highlighting the role of the BBC as a training ground for documentarians and discussing The Smithsonian Institution's screening of The Ascent ...
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Madam C. J. Walker and African American Philanthropy in the Twenty-First Century
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Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Published: 01 October 2020
... Crow society National Action Network National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP National Urban League NUL “new Jim Crow ” social justice Walker’s Legacy black women Oprah Winfrey giving circles Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Museum of African American History...
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Native American literary studies
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Sean Teuton
Published: 25 January 2018
... Matthews Washington Mooney James New England Noble Savage oral literature Pequot Powell John Wesley Radin Paul removal ritual drama Smithsonian Institution song Sparks Jared U S Army Ignoble Savage Mountain Chief music translation Boudinot Elias Iroquois confederacy League...
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Contested Archives, Contested Sources
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Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg
Published: 21 January 2011
... ongoing contestation about the nature of sources and their uses. Aeronautic and Space Museum Air Force Association Cold War Congress U S curators documents and documentation Enola Gay exhibitions Harwit Martin Japan museums revisionism Smithsonian Institution sources United States...
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Materials and Methods
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Taisoo Park
Published: 18 April 2001
... Net and Environmental Sensing System) samples available at the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution (USNM), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the University of Rhode Island (URI). It examines a total of 148 samples (one plankton net, 126 IKMT and 21...
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