National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Armed Forces History Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Ceramics and Glass Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Costume Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Domestic Life Search this
National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Political History Search this
Type:
Mixed archival materials
Date:
1994
1994-2004
Category:
Agency History
Notes:
This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
E-mail to James Steed from Ramunas Kondratas, Chair, Department of History, National Museum of American History, 1/21/00
Division of Social History, National Museum of American History, http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/cadsh.htm, accessed August 14, 2000
Division of Social History, National Museum of American History, http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/cadsh.htm, accessed August 3, 2004
Museum Departments, National Museum of American History, http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/departments.cfm, accessed November 25, 2005
Smithsonian Directory, 2000
The Division of Social History was created in 1994 during a general reorganization of the National Museum of American History when it became one of five divisions under the Department of History. Staff attached to the new Division were drawn from the former divisions of Armed Forces History, Ceramics and Glass, Costume, Domestic Life, and Political History. After a reorganization in or around 2005, the division ceased to exist and its staff and responsibilities transferred to newly created divisions.
The Division seeks to interpret public and private life in the American past. In doing so it studies areas of work, politics, reform movements, home life, gender identity, manufacturing, consumption, invention, and leisure.
Staff of the Division have included Susan H. Myers, Curator and Chair, 1994- ; William L. Bird, Curator, 1994- ; Barbara Clark Smith, Curator, 1994- ; Anne Castrodale Golovin, Curator, 1994- (Emeritus, 1997- ); Claudia Brush Kidwell, Curator, 1994- ; Edith Mayo, Curator, 1994- (Emeritus, 1997- ); Keith E. Melder, Curator, 1994-1996; Rodris Roth, Curator, 1994-1999 ; and Lonn Taylor, Historian, 1994- .
For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of " above.
Repository Loc.:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
