Word: smithsonian
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...Smithsonian's Hiroshima commemoration draws fire...
...series is something of a personal journey for Reagon, who is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the founder of the Washington-based a cappella black female singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the series Reagon frequently relates the development of sacred music to her own experiences: singing in church as a child in southwest Georgia; hearing a blues song for the first time (her reaction: "My God, I've found a piece of myself!"); touring with the Freedom Singers in the 1960s and fighting for civil rights by singing...
Cover: Angel by Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1889, from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C./Art Resource...
...member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern and European. I shall quote only one letter, that of Robert McCormick Adams, the distinguished anthropologist and Mesopotamian archaeologist, sometime director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Presently head of the Smithsonian Institution. I quote him with his permission...
...astrophysicist, but when I took the job I told myself that it was to explore a field that had always interested me. But wasn't the real reason so that when people asked, "What did you do with your summer?" I could reply, "I worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics"? I even bought a T-shirt to prove...