Publications

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

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
American Popular Song, Vols. 1-5 (annotator with James Morris and J. R. Taylor). Washington, D.C. and New York, NY: Smithsonian/CBS, 1984. 5 compact discs and 120-page booklet; bibliog..; discog.

An anthology of this distinctly national art form includes 110 selected archival recordings of classic popular songs and textual annotations.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
"And Now For Something Completely Different: Reconstructing Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday for Presentation in a Museum Setting." in Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian, Amy Henderson and Adrienne Kaeppler, eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996; pp. 262–72.

Essay on applying the exhibition experience to research and collections involving the performing arts, specifically in the archival reconstruction/museum performance of Duke Ellington's 1946 musical play, Beggar's Holiday.

Bowers, Dwight Blocker
American Musical Theater, Vols. 1-4. (annotator and producer) Washington, D.C. and New York, NY: Smithsonian/CBS, 1989. 4 compact discs and 120-page booklet; bibliog.; discog.

This collection of original cast recordings includes book with historical essay and extensive annotations on each selection.

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
"Marylanders in Portraiture," Annapolis, Maryland: Government House, State of Maryland, 1999.

Presents a broad view of those who contributed to the state’s heritage.

Davis, Nancy
"Exhibition review: Making Washington City: Proprietors, Dreamers and Builders, exhibition at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.," The Public Historian, Spring, 1992.

Davis, Nancy
The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America

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