Publications

The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
The Ultimate Broadway Composers, Vols. 1-12. (annotator). 12 compact discs with program booklets. London, England: Pearl Recordings, 2000-04.

This 12-volume series is devoted to rare original cast recordings of musicals by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Sigmund Romberg.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin, Vols. 1-4 (annotator and producer). Washington, D.C. and New York, NY: Smithsonian/BMG, 1995. Four compact discs with 64-page booklet; bibliog..; discog.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
Music of the New York Stage, Vols. 1-4 (annotator) London, England: Pearl Recordings, 1994.12 compact discs with 10-page booklets for each volume.

The earliest sound recordings of American musical theater artists is the focus for this recorded anthology.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker, with Ellen Roney Hughes
“The National Puppet Collection,” in American Puppetry: Collections, History and Performance. Eds. Phyllis Dircks, Steve Abrams. New York: American Theater Library Association, 2004.

Bowman, Doris M.
American Quilts (Smithsonian Treasury). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Burrola, Ann

Albright, Madeleine. Madam Secretary: A Memoir, Miramax; (September 16, 2003) 2003.

Burrola, Ann

Alexander, Jane. Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics, Public Affairs Press (DC); 1st edition (May 30, 2000).

Burrola, Ann

Ferraro, Geraldine, Linda Bird Francke. Ferraro: My Story, 1985

Burrola, Ann

The Year in Pictures, Life magazine, Jan. 1985.

Burrola, Ann

Editors' photo. Ebersole, Lucinda and Richard Peabody, eds. St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (February 1, 1993).

Chelnick, Judy M.

"From Stethoscopes to Artificial Hearts: 150 Years of Collecting Medical History at the Smithsonian Institution" in Caduceus, Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Collecting artifacts with special emphasis on the urgical, cardiology, anesthesiology, endoscopy, and bionics collection.

Chelnick, Judy M.

"The Classificiation of Artifacts in the Dittrick Museum" with Patsy Gerstner in Caduceus, Southern Illinois University, 1988.

Report on the adoption of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), to medical artifacts.

Chelnick, Judy M.

Web site: Artificial Anatomy: Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models with Richard Barden.

Chelnick, Judy M. Chelnick

"Benjamin Dudley's Surgical Set." In Tranysylvania Treasures: A Closer Look at the University's Treasures, Vol. II, No. 3, Lexington, Kentucky: Transylvania University. 6-7.

An examination of a surgical set which belonged to Benjamin Dudley a surgeon and professor at Tranysyvania College 1814-1850?   

Chelnick, Judy M. Chelnick

"Collecting Medical Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History." In Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Elizabeth Hallam eds. London: The Royal College of Surgeons, 200-213.

A historical look at how medical museums in Euroipe and the United States have collected, exhibited and interpreted this fasinating collecting genre. 

Coughlin, Mary, Paula Johnson, and Lauren Anderson
“Julia Child’s Kitchen as a Conservation Classroom” In The Public Face of Conservation, Emily Williams, ed. (London: Archetype Publications in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 121-130).

Report on the condition of objects on long-term display in Julia Child's Kitchen at the National Museum of American History. Curatorial and conservation issues are discussed.  

Daniel, Pete

"Rhythm of the Land," Agricultural History 68 (Fall 1994), pp. 1–22.

Using interviews and archival sources, this essay examines the rural South's impact on the origins of rock 'n' roll music. It was the presidential address for the Agricultural History Society, 1994.

Daniel, Pete

"The Legal Basis of Agrarian Capitalism: The South since 1933," in Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern, eds. Race and Class in the American South since 1890 (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994), pp. 79–102.

Based on legal and archival sources, this lecture analyzed the importance of federal programs in reshaping rural life and perpetuating racism in commodity programs. This essay was the Commonwealth Fund Lecture for 1992, University College London.

Daniel, Pete

Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Focusing on three commodities, the book traces the impact of government programs and mechanization in transforming rural life over a century. The book won the Charles S. Sydnor Prize from the Southern Historical Association and the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.

Daniel, Pete

Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

This is an overview of the U.S. South that focuses on missed opportunities to reform rural life and face the problem of racism. It also discusses rock 'n' roll music and stock car racing. It won the Elliott Rudwick Prize from the Organization of American Historians.

Daniel, Pete

Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the South, 1945-1970. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming, 2005.

This book analyzes the impact of snythetic chemicals (pesticides) on human health and on birds, fish, wildlife, and domestic animals. This book was the basis of the 2004 Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University.

Davidson, Janet F.

On the Move: Transportation and the American Story with Michael S. Sweeney. (National Geographic, 2003).

A richly illustrated companion book to the America on the Move exhibition that explores transportation and American history from 1800 to 2000.

Davis, Nancy
"Book review: Old Dominion New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007 by Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent, Jr., and William G .Shade (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007)," Maryland Historical Society Magazine, Spring 2008.

Davis, Nancy
“A View of the American Home at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art,” Smithsonian Museum of American Art Bulletin, Summer 2007.

A short review of objects on view at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art that explicate the idea of home.

Davis, Nancy
"Exhibition review: The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity and the Jewish American Dream at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2007," The Journal of American History, Summer 2007.

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