National Museum of American History Celebrates 10th Annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend and Gala Oct. 17–19 Alice Waters ...

National Museum of American History Celebrates Tenth Annual 
Smithsonian Food History Weekend and Gala Oct. 17-19 Alice ...

Join us Thursday–Saturday, October 17–19, for a series of food history programs. Organized around the theme, “Ten Years of the Julia Child Award: Education, Advocacy, and Community,” the cooking ...

Baseball fielder's mitt from around the turn of the 20th century. As sports became more popular in the second half of the 18th century, League's were organized, rules were codified, and equipment was ...

More than just waging a war of independence, American revolutionaries took a great leap of faith and established a new government based on the sovereignty of the people. It was truly a radical idea ...

The RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Company. Designed to be fast and luxurious, the vessel was launched in 1907, and began its first transatlantic voyage on ...

A visitor using one of the exhibition's interactive displays Are you a student or a teacher? Bring the histories, objects, and ideas that inform American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith into your ...

What happens when a people decide to govern themselves? America’s national treasures come to life in this compelling exhibition that examines the bold experiment to create a government “of the people, ...

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH "Entertainment Nation”/”Nación del espectáculo” Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture ...

Julia Child experienced foreign and unfamiliar cuisines for the first time during World War II. Working for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA), she traveled to Ceylon ...

Soon after leaving the Cordon Bleu, Julia Child began thinking about producing a cookbook, a new kind of book that would be a serious tool for teaching Americans to think about cooking the way the ...

The soul food movement celebrated the culturally and socially important foods of African American people. Soul food restaurants and cookbooks proliferated and innovators, like Princess Pamela (Strobel ...