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Queer coins: LGBTQ rulers through history 2018-06-19

With Pride Month celebrations recognizing LGBTQ history and culture throughout the country this June, what better way to highlight the occasion than by studying historical LGBTQ rulers with coins?Throughout history, there are many examples of world leaders who for their gender expressions and sexual orientations would today be seen as members of the LGBTQ community. […]

What connects Abraham Lincoln and vampires? Bram Stoker, of course. 2018-06-06

What is it about Abraham Lincoln and vampires? When Seth Grahame-Smith published his action/horror mash-up novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, scholars cringed. Few historians studying the 16th president were willing to go on the record to say what many truly thought, but suffice to say, it was not as supportive as the praise given for […]

How do the arts promote social change? 2018-06-04

The arts are "a space where we can give dignity to others while interrogating our own circumstances," Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, said at the museum's annual symposium, The Power of Giving: Philanthropy's Impact on American Life. Held on March 22, 2018, the program explored philanthropy's impact on and through culture and the arts. […]

You're invited to a Bowl of Rice Party 2018-05-30

Wartime often catalyzes developments in philanthropy. In 2017, the museum added the Bowl of Rice party banner, from fundraising efforts to aid people in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to its collection. Curator Theodore S. Gonzalves, a scholar of Asian American history, answered three questions from our philanthropy curator, Amanda Moniz, about the story […]

Grape gluts and Mother Clones: Prohibition and American wine 2018-05-24

Congress passed the National Prohibition Act in January 1919, and a year later, Americans were barred from making, transporting, selling, exporting, and importing intoxicating liquors. Prohibition snarled industries, expanded crime, and upended social life. Yet in nearly 13 years as the law of the land, Prohibition failed to convert the United States to a nation […]

La Choy and Korean cofounder Ilhan New: Negotiating Asian culinary identities in America 2018-05-18

A photograph of Korean food products—rice wine, soy sauce, and galbi (marinated meat) sauce—at a grocery store in Washington, D.C., that I shared with my family and friends in South Korea."Where did you get that from?" asked the man waiting in line with me at the grocery store as he looked at my jar of […]

Does this ring a bell? School bells of the late 19th and early 20th centuries 2018-05-15

What’s it like to intern with our Division of Home and Community Life? Elizabeth Wells found herself falling in love with our bell collection while puzzling over the mysteries these durable, often attractive, and sometimes noisy objects.As noted in Lar and Sue Hothem’s 1993 book School Collectibles of the Past, “most bells sound as clear […]

Mickey Mouse turns 90 2018-05-15

It is hard to believe, but Mickey Mouse is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. For an old mouse, he still looks pretty spry! One of the world’s most universally recognized and enduring personalities, Mickey Mouse sailed into our lives on November 18, 1928, in the animated black-and-white film short Steamboat Willie that premiered at […]

What does Alexander Hamilton have to do with the lace industry in Ipswich, Massachusetts? 2018-05-08

If you were rich and powerful, from the late 1500s on into the late 1700s, you would show off your wealth by adorning your fashionable clothing with yards of handmade lace. This was true in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a town whose history is explored in our Within These Walls exhibition. Among the artifacts displayed in the […]

Entrepreneurial embroiderers 2018-04-30

Embroidery by the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework is beautiful . . . but that's just the beginning of the story. These special pieces weave together a history of entrepreneurial women, making a name for themselves in the late 1800s and contributing to a revolution in decorative arts.In the 1880s, every table needed […]

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