This morning, we're suiting up for a full day exploring the history of Latinas/os and baseball. ⚾

Throughout the day, individuals and organizations around the world will be sharing their favorite objects and stories. Follow #NuestroBaseball to see them all—and add your own! @smithsonian @SLC_Latino @sitesExhibits @Smithsonian3D Need to warm up before you step up to the plate? Our exhibition, ¡Pleibol!, is a great place to start.

Carmen Lujan is one of the incredible Latina players featured in ¡Pleibol!. This was her Mercury Señoritas uniform in the 1930s: s.si.edu/3kUpu39

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History is part of how we collectively remember, but key moments in history can go unaccounted for or even be silenced.

Communities across the country have fought to have their stories told using historical evidence, commemorative markers, personal accounts, and museum exhibits. In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission put up a series of signs to publicly mark Emmett Till’s last moments and to memorialize sites of his lynching in the Mississippi. These are important to both preserve Emmett’s memory and tell an often-silenced side of a national story.

This Filathlitikos B.C., jersey belonged to #Giannis Antetokounmpo, who played for the Greek team during the 2011-2012 season, leading up to his draft by the #MilwaukeeBucks in 2013. @Giannis_An34 Giannis and his four brothers were raised in Greece by their parents, Nigerians who emigrated to the European country in 1993. Challenged by racism and xenophobia, Charles often struggled to find work, and the family lived in fear of deportation.

Today in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated.

#DayOfRemembrance Americans of Japanese ancestry & Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register & report to temporary detention centers. Evacuees were allowed to bring only what they could carry. #DayOfRemembrance

Iku Tsuchiya used this suitcase.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

From gathering moss to a multi-million dollar industry, we’re about to bring you the #WW1 story you never knew you always needed. It’s a tale of sacrifice, service … and sanitary napkins.

#philanthropy #AmericanGiving #GivingTuesday #BecauseOfHerStory #HistMed Open wounds and blood loss can be some of the most dangerous issues on the battlefield.
First aid chests and U.S. Hospital Corps belts would be sure to contain sterile dressings to staunch bleeding.

Tomorrow our updated “Giving in America” display about #philanthropy will go on view, but today we’re giving our followers a sneak peek. #AmericanGiving The display takes a global approach. Diseases, treatments and cures, and resources cross borders, and Americans have long approached medical #philanthropy as members of an international community. #AmericanGiving s.si.edu/GivingHealth

Today in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated. #DayOfRemembrance #EO9066 #EO9066 was issued ten weeks after Pearl Harbor. Toku Shimomura of Seattle described the news of the attack in her diary, writing “Our future has become gloomy. I pray that God will stay with us.” #DayOfRemembrance

Hi. Can we talk about a heroic pigeon who did something cool 100 years ago today? World War I, October 1918. Forest of Argonne in France. Under heavy fire, cut off by the enemy, and desperate for rescue, the men of what became known as the #LostBattalion have only two homing pigeons left.

We’re taking a closer look at conflict and compromise in American history.
@NationalHistory Day students explored that topic in exhibits, and are sharing their exhibits on the floor. Take a closer look at objects from our collection that show conflict and compromise in American history with our curators.