Publications
The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.
A discussion of trade issues between China and America in the early 19th century.
An article that explores the use of American manifest records to record the history of trade with China.
Essay - "Communities of Refuge in Frontier Illinois"
A short review of objects on view at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art that explicate the idea of home.
Explicates the design of several quilts in the American Museum in Bath, England.
An examination of the role of women and aspects of gentility in the making of Baltimore Album quilts in the Maryland Historical Society collection.
Discusses the role of feature films as historical documents.
A history of collecting and exhibiting art photography at the Smithsonian. Illustrations highlight objects and past exhibitions from the NMAH collections.
Summary of the exhibition of the first photographic salon in the United States, and the beginnings of the national collection of photography at the Smithsonian. Illustrations of images shown at the 1896 salon now in the NMAH collections.
Popular interest news feature on the public reaction to digital watches when they were first introduced in the 1970s.
Web site article exploring the shift from pocket watches to wristwatches in the early 20th century, and the subsequent shift to electronic timekeeping in the 1970s.
Survey of three independent teams in the United States, Switzerland and Japan that invented the first electronic quartz wristwatches.
Web site exploring the global competition to develop the first quartz electronic wristwatches in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Sidebar article on the application of liquid crystal display technology in digital watches in the 1970s.
