EXHIBITION UPDATE Last Chance to See Some Popular Objects! "Entertainment Nation”/ "Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar ...

During the summer of 1964 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent volunteers into Mississippi’s African American communities. They registered voters and taught civics, voting rights, ...

The results of the 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes were close enough to require recounts of ballots in Louisiana. President Ulysses S. Grant sent this telegram ...

The Civil War became the first conflict in which arrangements were made for deployed soldiers to vote. Who the Union soldiers would support—President Abraham Lincoln or their former commander, George ...

Bostonians protested the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The court ruled that the First Amendment protected the right of corporations, associations, ...

Participants commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington carried posters that voiced concern over the possible erosion of gains made by the civil rights movement after the ...

The American Safety Lamp & Mine Supply Company hired M.D. Cremer of England to produce this lamp around 1913. M.D. This John Davis & Son safety lamp manufactured in the early 20th century is notable ...

Collections 1846 - Elias Howe Jr.'s Sewing Machine Patent Model Sewing Machine Patent Model. Patent No. 4,750, issued September 10, 1846. Elias Howe Jr. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While working as a ...

Cookie Monster is a live-hand puppet originally performed by Frank Oz and currently performed by David Rudman. In a live-hand puppet, like Cookie Monster, one of the performer’s hands is in the puppet ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record sound and play it back. On the first audio recording Edison recited, “Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white ...

The American Brewing History Initiative at the National Museum of American History documents and collects the story of beer and brewing in America, with a special focus on home brewing and craft beer.