Hampton Smith, Ph.D. student, MIT, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and ...
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More InfoMuseum exhibits, suggests Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch, have the capacity to make the familiar unexpected, and the unfamiliar understood. And, even an ...
More InfoThe Beechwood mansion on Bellevue Avenue is best known for having been the summer home of Mrs. William Backhouse Astor, Gilded Age Queen of ...
More InfoThis guest post was written by Rebecca Kelly, NHS Visiting Curator of Fashion History. Mary Charlotte O’Hara was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and emigrated ...
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