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Through freestanding, illustrated banners with text, this bilingual (English and Spanish) exhibition examines the experiences of bracero workers and their families while providing insight into Mexican American history and historical context to today's debates on guest worker programs.

Step into the culinary world of Julia Child, America's favorite chef!

On view are 20 portraits from an exhibition, which toured the U.S. from 1944 through 1954, entitled Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin.

Examine iconic works and major pieces never before seen in the United States by Brian Jungen (Dunne-za First Nations/Swiss/Canadian), widely regarded as the foremost Native artist of his generation.

The exhibition tells the history of business aviation from open-cockpit biplanes used after World War I to the Lear jet.

Featured are Alexander Calder's three-dimensional wire portraits alongside contemporary documents by other artists.

This exhibition presents portraits-- many on view for the first time -- that reside in private Washington, D.C., collections.

This photographic exhibition highlights the behind-the-scenes research that advances scientific knowledge and inspires the museum's public educational programs.

The art of caricature—the distortion of the face or figure for satiric purposes—claims a long tradition in Western art. During the height of its vogue between the two world wars, caricature of the famous permeated the press and graced New York City café walls, theater curtains, and silk dresses.

Learn how music and dance continue to bind American Indian communities to all living things, to the earth, to the spirit world, and -- when people have deep ancestral claims to their dances -- to the past.

Learn about COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, one of the first computer-programming languages to run successfully on different brands of computers, in this case.

In this bilingual (English & Spanish) exhibition, vintage and modern recordings, broadsides, photographs, posters, musical instruments, and other memorabilia are used to explore the historical development of the corrido (ballad) in the New World over the past 200 years.

Jointly prepared by the Smithsonian and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the exhibition presents the cultures of Alaska and Siberia from the end of the Ice Age Era to modern times.

This gallery focuses on the modern changes in mail service introduced at the turn of the 20th century.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, president during the Great Depression, used stamps to communicate with the American people.

Two of the greatest jazz composers were Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967). This exhibition examines two of their most ubiquitous pieces.

This exhibition of 60 photographs focuses on the later years of Thomas Edison's career.