The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
Publications
“The Origins of Marine Art,”
Schatkamer: Veertien opstellen over maritiem-historische onderwerpen aangeboden aan Leo M. Akveld bij zijn afscheid van het Maritiem Museum Rotterdam (Franeker: Uitgeverij Wijnen, 2002) 114—127.
"The Wreck of the Steamboat Indiana,"
Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History 5 (1993) 181–192.
History and archaeology of one of the earliest propeller-driven steamboats in the Great Lakes.
“Underwater Heritage Milestone Legislation,”
MARITimes 15.1 (2002) 11–12.
An examination of Bermuda’s recent legislation preserving submerged cultural resources.
"Looking at Artifacts, Thinking about History."
with Steven Lubar. Artifact & Analysis: A Teacher’s Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies and the National Museum of American History, 2001.
Discusses the value of artifacts in studying the past, and presents five ways to think about artifacts in history. Part of a teacher's guide developed for Advanced Placement Program U.S. History courses.
Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian
with Steven Lubar. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
Explores changing ideas about what is worth saving from the American past through an illustrated history of the National Museum of American History's collections, featuring over 250 objects.
Smithsonian Treasures of American History.
New York: Collins, 2006.
Companion book to the Treasures of American History exhibition, featuring more than 150 objects from the NMAH collections.
“Stalking the Elusive Computer Bug,”
Annals of the History of Computing, 1998. 20: 5–9.
“'Yours for Improvement'—The Adding Machines of Chicago, 1884–1930,”
Annals of the History of Computing, 2001, 23: 3–21.
Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800-2000
with Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Surveys changes in the material culture of American mathematics teaching. Tells stories about objects from the blackboard and the textbook to the protractor and the slide rule to the graphing calculator and computer software.
“The Material Culture of Scientific and Technical Information Systems in the United States—Patent Models to Computers,”
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems, eds. Mary Ellen Bowden and W. Boyd Rayward, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2004.
Essential Jazz Editions, Set #3: Music of the 30's, Part I
(cellist). The Castle Trio. Smithsonian Collection of Recordings ND 034, 1988.
Essential Jazz Editions (EJE) is a series of scores for jazz ensembles transcribed from classic jazz recordings. Each original transcription includes historical and performance notes. This project was conceived jointly by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and the Music Division, Library of Congress.
Set #3 includes: From A_Flat to C, John Kirby Sextet; For Dancers Only, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra; Big Jim Blues, Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joyl; Lonesome Road, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra; and Symphony in Riffs, Benny Carter & His Orchestra.
Essential Jazz Editions, Set #2: Louis Armstrong, 1926–1929
Essential Jazz Editions (EJE) is a series of scores for jazz ensembles transcribed from classic jazz recordings. Each original transcription includes historical and performance notes. This project was conceived jointly by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and the Music Division, Library of Congress.
Set #2 includes: Cornet Chop Suey, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five; Hotter Than That, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five; West End Blues, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five; Tight Like This, Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five; and Mahogany Hall Stomp, Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five.
Essential Jazz Editions: Set #4: Music of the 1930s, Part II
Essential Jazz Editions (EJE) is a series of scores for jazz ensembles transcribed from classic jazz recordings. Each original transcription includes historical and performance notes. This project was conceived jointly by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and the Music Division, Library of Congress.
Set #4 includes: Avalon, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra; Sweet Sue, Just You, Don Redman & His Orchestra; Swingtime in the Rockies, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; King Porter Stomp, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; and South Rampart Street Parade, Bob Crosby & His Orchestra.
Essential Jazz Editions: Set #1, New Orleans Jazz, 1918–1927
Essential Jazz Editions (EJE) is a series of scores for jazz ensembles transcribed from classic jazz recordings. Each original transcription includes historical and performance notes. This project was conceived jointly by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and the Music Division, Library of Congress.
Set #1 includes: Black Bottom Stomp, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers; The Chant, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers; Grandpa's Spells, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers; Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger), the Original Dixieland Jazz Band; and Potato Head Blues, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven.
"Death Helped Write the Biologics Law."
FDA Consumer, 16 (1982): 23–25.
A more popular version of the “Biologics Control Act of 1902” paper.
“Biologics Control Act of 1902.”
in The Early Years of Federal Food and Drug Control, edited by Glenn Sonnedecker, 8–27. Madison, Wisc.: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1982.
A history of the first federal law regulating the interstate and foreign sale of a specific class of drugs in the United States. Illustrations of objects and trade literature in the NMAH collections.
Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine, 13, no. 3
(Winter, 1997), guest editor. “150 Years of Collecting Medical History at the Smithsonian Institution.” Wrote “Introduction” (2-12), “Medical Imaging” (23-26), and “Scientific
Medicines” (43-46).
The whole issue, devoted to the history of the Medical Sciences Division and its collections, is written by the current
staff working with those collections and includes many photographs of objects and exhibitions.
History of Medical Ultrasound
CD compiled in 2003 by B. B. Goldberg, P. N. T. Wells, M. Claudon, and R. Kondratas and distributed by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (Laurel, MD).
A selection of key historical papers published in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, books, reports, and other journals as well as the lecture presented by R. Kondratas during the 10th Congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2003, Montreal, Canada.
Images from the History of the Public Health Service.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994.
Catalog of a photographic exhibit, which consists of 165 photographs depicting people involved in the work of the
Public Health Service over much of its long history. The organization is thematic: disease control and prevention, biomedical research, pure food and drugs, mental health and drug abuse, health care delivery, and international health.
“Prototype Thermal Cycler for PCR, ‘Mr. Cycle’ (1985).”
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 63 (December, 1999): 22.
Short description of the prototype thermal cycler built in 1984–85 by the scientists and engineers at Cetus Corporation (Emeryville, Calif.), where Kary Mullis conceived the idea for PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), and Perkin-Elmer Corporation (Norwalk, Conn.). This instrument was collected for the NMAH collections and placed on display in the Science in American Life exhibition.
Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions,
editorial team. New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc., 1994.
A heavily illustrated history of invention and innovation, primarily for children that includes many photographs of objects.
“Polymerase Chain Reaction.”
In Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Bud and Deborah J. Warner, 481–483. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998.
Short history of the concept and the instrument that embodied it.
“The Preservation and Disposition of Hazardous Substances and Controlled Drugs in Museum Collections.”
Caduceus 7 (1991): pp. 55–62.
What to do with the nasty stuff in your collections—definitions, suggestions, guidelines, resources.
The History of Pharmacy: A Selected Annotated Bibliography,
associate editor. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1995. Section on “Equipment and Museology,” 254–285.
114 annotated bibliographic entries on pharmaceutical equipment and historical pharmaceutical displays, mainly Europe
and the United States.
“The Artifactual Legacy of AIDS.”
in AIDS and the Historian, edited by Victoria A. Harden and Guenter B. Risse, pp. 142–147. Washington, D.C.: NIH Publication No. 91-1584, 1991.
What to collect to document the history of AIDS.