MUSEUMS AND MORE!

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Air and Space Museum

National Postal Museum

Smithsonian Archives

SI Traveling Exhibition Sservices

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Magazine

Resident Associates

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History Wired

 

AFFILIATES!

American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar

American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Conner Prairie (Fishers, Indiana)

Historic Arkansas Museum

Kenosha Public Museum (Kenosha, Wisconsin)

Lowell National Historical Park

National Civil War Museum (Harrisburg, PA)

National Museum of American Jewish History

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, Ohio)

North Carolina Museum of History

Oklahoma Historical Society (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

Senator John Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh, PA)

South Carolina State Museum

Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History

 

TEACHER RESOURCES!

Smithsonian's History Explorer

Smithsonian Education

 

WE WERE THERE!

"Interruptions and Embarrassments": The Smithsonian Institution during the Civil War

Photographs of the Smithsonian during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln Visits the Castle (video)

On This Spot: Thaddeus Lowe, Chief Aeronaut for the Union Army

Civil War Balloons (video)

Ambrose Burnside & the 1st RI at Camp Sprague near Washington, D.C., 1861 (video)

Joseph Henry: Science Advisor

 

EXHIBITIONS!

“So Much Need of Service” – The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
(April 22 - July 29, 2011)

150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth
(April 29, 2011 - March 18, 2012)

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War (permanent)

American Art: Civil War
(permanent)

American Origins 1600-1900
(permanent)

 

ONLINE!

Treasures of American History: the Civil War

American History Blog: O Say Can You See? (Civil War posts)

Civil War Artifacts

Civil War Sunday School Quilt (video)

Mail Call objects and letters

War Letters: Lost & Found

Civil War Letters

Civil War Printing

A Gateway to the 19th Century: The William Steinway Diary, 1861–1896

Mary Henry: Eyewitness to the Civil War in the City of Washington

Binding the Nation: A Nation Divided

Civil War Songs & Sounds

Smithsonian Scrapbook – Mary Henry’s Civil War diary

Smithsonian Scrapbook – Solomon Brown’s Civil War letters

Solomon Brown, Renaissance Man

Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life

Abraham Lincoln resources at Smithsonian Institution Archives

Abraham Lincoln (2009 Online Conference)

The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey—Where Art and History Intersect

 

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