Tune in to our Cooking Up History demonstrations during #SmithsonianFood History Weekend (Oct. 15–17) for recipes & wisdom from chefs who are helping build a more sustainable, healthy food future, while honoring traditions from the past: s.si.edu/SmithsonianFood
A sneak peak⬇️
Join chef Nico Albert (Cherokee Nation) on Oct. 16 to learn how to forage for sumac, an ingredient that is so important in her traditional cuisine. She'll show you how to prepare sumac-crusted trout with a healthy side of sauteed seasonal mushrooms & greens. #SmithsonianFood
On Oct. 17, watch chef Jocelyn Ramírez prepare a dish that has sustained many generations, Las Tres Hermanas en Chipotle. As she cooks, she'll speak about the critical use of permaculture, past and present, in indigenous Mexican foodways. #SmithsonianFood
On Oct. 17, chef Haile Thomas will share the health and environmental benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, while speaking about her work as a youth activist. She’ll be making creamy beet spaghetti and garlicky greens from her new cookbook, “Living Lively.” #SmithsonianFood
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In the early U.S., samplers were often part of girls' educations. Sewing them helped girls learn to read, write, and reason. You name it, they sewed it. But samplers were also a way for girls to express their political views—as Betsy Bucklin's sampler shows.⬇️ #BecauseOfHerStory
At 13, Betsy Bucklin felt free to express her political views when she sewed this sampler during the American Revolution. Its verse reminded leaders that women played a role in shaping popular political opinion (and that they should think twice before defying George Washington).
Bucklin wasn't alone. In the early US, many women were politically active, despite being denied legal rights, voting rights, or even the right to speak before a crowd. They took sides in partisan disputes and expressed opinions in the press—and samplers.
We join the nation in mourning the death of Congressman John Lewis, a lifelong advocate for equality and justice.
Lewis joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1958 while attending seminary in Nashville.
Congressman Lewis remained a leader in the fight for equality and justice throughout his life. This 1963 poster for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee features a Danny Lyon photograph of Lewis and other leaders praying while protesting racial segregation.
Congressman John Lewis made a lasting impact on human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration rights in the United States and abroad.
Reverend C. T. Vivian embodied the values that made the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s revolutionary and inspiring: courage, commitment, sacrifice, and strategy.
Rev. Vivian first became involved in the movement through sit ins. He participated in a successful sit-in in Peoria, IL in 1947. As a ministry student in Nashville when he helped organize a three-month sit in campaign of Nashville’s lunch counters.
Vivian continued to be a force in the Civil Rights Movement, advising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., overseeing Southern Christian Leadership Conference chapters, undergoing arrest and imprisonment as a Freedom Rider, organizing protests and voter registration drives, and more.
Today in 1863: Readers of “Harper's Weekly” learn of a daring raid by U.S. forces into rebel-held territory in South Carolina that delivered more than 700 enslaved people to freedom.
For many, this piece was their introduction to the one, the only: Harriet Tubman.
In 1863, Harriet Tubman was an already an accomplished leader in the fight to end slavery.
After escaping from bondage in Maryland in 1849, she returned to the state 13 times and led more than 70 people to freedom.
76 years ago today, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, an all African American unit, were part of the first waves of soldiers on Omaha and Utah beaches on D-Day. They brought barrage balloons ashore to help protect the soldiers that would follow. s.si.edu/377kGOJ
The photograph to the left shows the barrage balloons flying above the beaches of Normandy, protecting those below.
The photograph to the right shows members of the 320th pulling a barrage balloon through a partly cleared mine field to a new site in France, 22 August 1944.
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, thousands of Allied naval vessels and planes streamed toward Nazi-occupied France to break through Hitler's coastal defenses. Robert Capa captured this image of American troops landing in Normandy. More about D-Day: americanhistory.si.edu/blog/dday
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification. This #WomensHistoryMonth, you'll probably see a sentence like this:
"The 19th Amendment gave U.S. women the right to vote."
However, that sentence erases a lot of women from the history books. A thread:⬇️
The 19th Amendment was the culmination of generations of women advocating for their political rights.
Ratifying the 19th Amendment was neither the beginning nor the end of women's fight for the vote, which stretched back to the American Revolution.
Before the 19th Amendment addressed women’s voting rights nationally, suffragists fought for and secured the right to vote at the state level. The stars on this flag represent the four states where women secured the right to vote before 1900: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho.