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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Note on the Objects | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Before Columbus (525 Million Years Ago to 1492) | |
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| Burgess Shale Fossils | |
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| Bald Eagle | |
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| Clovis Stone Points | |
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| Mississippian Birdman Copper Plate | |
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| New World (1492 to Mid-Eighteenth Century) | |
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| Christopher Columbus's Portrait | |
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| Spanish Mission Hide Painting of Saint Anthony | |
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| Pocahontas's Portrait | |
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| Plymouth Rock Fragment | |
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| Slave Shackles | |
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| Americ� Nova Tabula (Map) | |
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| Let Freedom Ring (1760s to 1820s) | |
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| Declaration of Independence | |
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| George Washington's Uniform and Sword | |
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| Benjamin Franklins Walking Stick | |
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| Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington | |
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| Star-Spangled Banner | |
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| Thomas Jefferson's Bible | |
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| Young Nation (Late Eighteenth Century to 1850s) | |
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| Conestoga Wagon | |
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| Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin | |
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| John Deere's Steel Plow | |
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| Isaac Singer's Sewing Machine | |
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| Nauvoo Temple Sun Stone | |
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| Sea to Shining Sea (1800 To 1850s) | |
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| Lewis and Clark's Pocket Compass | |
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| John Bull Steam Locomotive | |
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| Samuel Colts Revolver | |
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| Morse-Vail Telegraph | |
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| Mexican Army Coat | |
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| Gold Discovery Flake from Sutter's Mill | |
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| Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon | |
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| A House Divided (1850 to 1865) | |
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| Frederick Douglass's Ambrotype Portrait | |
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| Harriet Tubman's Hymnal and Shawl | |
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| Emancipation Proclamation Pamphlet | |
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| Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor | |
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| Appomattox Court House Furnishings | |
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| Abraham Lincoln's Hat | |
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| Manifest Destiny (1845 to Early Twentieth Century) | |
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| Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada, California | |
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| King Kamehameha III's Feather Cape | |
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| American Buffalo | |
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| Sitting Bull's Drawing Book | |
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| Bugle from the U.S.S. Maine | |
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| Industrial Revolution (1865 to Early Twentieth Century) | |
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| Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone | |
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| Thomas Edison's Lightbulb | |
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| Frederic Bartholdi's Liberty | |
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| Andrew Carnegie's Mansion | |
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| Ford Model T | |
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| Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk Flyer | |
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| Bakelizer Plastic Maker | |
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| Modern Nation (1870s to 1929) | |
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| James Whistler's Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room | |
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| Beraice Palmer's Kodak Brownie Camera | |
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| Helen Keller's Watch | |
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| Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner | |
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| Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood | |
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| World War I Gas Mask | |
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| Louis Armstrong's Trumpet | |
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| Scopes "Monkey Trial" Photograph | |
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| Spirit of St. Louis | |
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| Babe Ruth Autographed Baseball | |
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| Great Depression (1929 to 1940) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Fireside Chat" Microphone | |
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| John L. Lewis's Union Badge | |
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| Marian Andersons Mink Coat | |
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| Dorothy's Ruby Slippers | |
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| Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" | |
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| Greatest Generation (1941 to 1945) | |
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| U.S.S. Oklahoma Postal Hand Stamps | |
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| Spirit of Tuskgee | |
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| "We Can Do It!" Poster of Rosie the Riveter | |
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| Japanese American World War II Internment Art | |
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| Audie Murphy's Eisenhower Jacket | |
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| Enola Gay | |
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| Cold War (1946 to 1991) | |
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| Fallout Shelter | |
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| Mercury Friendship 7 | |
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| Huey Helicopter | |
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| Pandas from China | |
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| Berlin Wall Fragment | |
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| New Frontiers (1930s to 1980s) | |
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| Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine | |
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| Jacqueline Kennedy's Inaugural Ball Gown | |
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| Julia Child's Kitchen | |
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| The Pill and Its Dispenser | |
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| Neil Armstrong's Space Suit | |
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| "Mr. Cycle" PCR Machine | |
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| Space Shuttle Discovery | |
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| Civil Rights (1947 to Now) | |
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| Greensboro Lunch Counter | |
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| Muhammad Ali's Boxing Gear | |
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| Bob Dylan Poster by Milton Glaser | |
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| Cesar Chavez's Union Jacket | |
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| Gay Civil Rights Picket Signs | |
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| AIDS Memorial Quilt Panel | |
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| Pop Culture (Mid-Twentieth Century to Now) | |
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| Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse | |
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| RCA Television Set | |
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| Chuck Berry's Gibson Guitar | |
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| Katharine Hepburn's Oscars | |
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| Hope Diamond | |
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| Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe | |
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| McDonald's Golden Arches Sign | |
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| Kermit the Frog | |
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| Star Wars' R2-D2 and C-3PO | |
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| Digital Age (1945 to Now) | |
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| ENIAC | |
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| Apples Macintosh Computer | |
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| Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway | |
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| New Millennium (2000 to the Future) | |
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| New York Fire Department Engine Door from September 11 | |
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| Shepard Fairey's Barack Obama "Hope" Portrait | |
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| David Boxley's Tsimshian Totem Pole | |
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| Giant Magellan Telescope | |
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| What's Not Included? | |
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| Old Things, New Studies | |
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| Object Specifications and Photographic Credits | |
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| Time Line of American History | |
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| Maps | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |