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Online Exhibitions

Changing America: Emancipation March on Washington pin, 1963

Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963

Civil War Field Printing

Civil War Field Printing

COBOL

Cosmos in Miniature

Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt

Disability Rights Movement

The Disability Rights Movement

Doodles, Drafts, and Designs

Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian

Doubtless as Good

Doubtless as Good: Thomas Jefferson's Dream for American Wine Fulfilled

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers

Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail

Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail

The Early Sixties: American Culture

The Early Sixties: American Culture

Artifact Walls - The Early Sixties: American Science

The Early Sixties: American Science

Edison After Forty

Edison After Forty: The Challenge of Success

Elephants and Us: Considering Extinction

The First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald at 100

Ella Fitzgerald at 100

Children in hospital ward

EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America

Family of Voices photo montage

Family of Voices

Fast Attacks and Boomers

Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War

The Feather Trade

The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement

FOOD: Transforming the American Table

FOOD: Transforming the American Table

Currently on view

Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion

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Featured Online Exhibitions

America on the Move - How transportation has shaped our American identity.

American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith - What happens when a people decide to govern themselves?

American Enterprise - Chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy.

FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950–2000 - How new technologies and cultural changes transformed how and what we eat.

Many Voices, One Nation - E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

On the Water: Stories from Maritime America - Discover the significant role maritime activity has played in American lives.

Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education - A turning point in the history of race relations in the United States.

The Star-Spangled Banner - The flag that inspired the national anthem.

Also enjoy a variety of exhibition tours in audio format and multiple languages.