Visit the Great Plains Black History Museum to learn about the contributions and achievements of African Americans with an emphasis on the Great Plains region. To provide a space to learn, explore, reflect, and remind us of our history.
Wednesday, Jun. 16, 7 p.m. via Zoom Presenters: Earl Ijames, Curator of African American, Agriculture, and Community History, North Carolina Museum of History; Chrystal Regan, Education Section Chief, North Carolina Museum of History Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day in 1865 (June 19th) when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control […]
Listen in as Richard Rothstein and Lila Corwin Berman discuss contemporary racial segregation across the United States. The panelists will dig into the history of public housing projects, suburbanization, and the actions of the federal housing administration and then interrogate the racial segregation and income gap in America today as a byproduct of explicit government […]
In the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, our goal is to teach the public that that the ocean is a global system essential to all life on our planet, including yours. In this course, we will explore the ocean from the coast to the deep sea, and from our […]
This course introduces the basics of climate science and communication strategies to help empower individuals to talk about climate change as a means to inspire action.
Since launching in 2017, PreserveCast is the most popular historic preservation podcast with a growing group of listeners. Each Monday, your host Nick Redding interviews industry leaders in preservation with an interesting story to share about maintaining the relevancy of historic preservation in our tech-driven world.
Watch this short video about the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima, the moment which capped one of the fiercest and gruesome battles of World War II.
The Long Conversation is an epic creative marathon between artists, scientists and other big thinkers that's guaranteed to leave you feeling better about the future. Once a year, NASA astronauts, Grammy-winning musicians, tech CEOs, poets, inventors and more converge in the historic Arts + Industries Building for a lively 8-hour relay race of surprising conversations […]
Watch this YouTube series, where a group of veterans share their experience in the Vietnam War.
Within steps of the Atlanta History Center Museum, reflect on the men and women who have served—and continue to serve—the United States of America.
Dr. Sabrina Sholts invites audiences to join the Smithsonian and leverage science communication and informal education as a safeguard against pandemic threats, helping to stem the tide of panic and confusion that can quickly inundate facts and reason when novel viruses emerge.
Naturalist Howard Youth shares his documentation of nature in DC and talks about his book "Field Guide to the Natural World of DC that takes readers on an urban safari, describing the wild side of the nation's capital. He inspires people to find biodiversity in any big city.