National Museum of American History Celebrates 10th Annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend and Gala Oct. 17–19 Alice Waters ...

Julia Child’s home kitchen serves as the opening story for the exhibition Food: Transforming the American Table.

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the ...

Join us Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, for a series of food history programs. Organized around the theme, “Ten Years of the Julia Child Award: Education, Advocacy, and Community,” the cooking ...

The acoustic siren was one of the fundamental tools of 19th century science. Invented by the French scientist Cagniard de la Tour, in 1819, the siren used a bellows apparatus to force air through two ...

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Aids in relieving distress and discomforts of colds by its fourfold action -- as an analgesic, as an antipyretic, as an ...

Understanding women’s history is integral to understanding the American experience. Although often underrepresented in recorded histories, women helped build the United States of America of today and ...

From at least the 19th century, people have been intrigued by the ability of computing devices to assist in mental processes. The name of the “Magic-Brain Calculator” suggests this enthusiasm, ...

The presidential election in 1896, a contest between the Republican candidate, William McKinley (1843-1901), and the Democrat candidate, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), was contested over McKinley ...

"To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, in the State of New Jersey, United States of America, have invented an improvement on Electric Lamps, and in the ...

A truly "grass roots" sport, organized "go-karting" arose in the late 1950s. In the 1930s and late 1940s, various types of smaller open-wheeled race cars had been developed for certain classes of ...

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