than 8 hundreds of exhibits from ukraine curator of the numismatic collection of the national museum of american history the main exposition of money in the united states for more than a year ukrainian hryvnias and ancient coins have been given a special place in this museum in march february 2022 when we constantly heard from russia that ukraine has always been a part of russia, i thought that the objects of our national collection actually tell a different story and i think that they tell more thoroughly about the history of ukraine, so i i started looking for the collection to find out what was issued in how many centuries did ukraine either issue its own currency or pass currency through trade routes and neighbors ? the period did not include being part of russia , ukrainian money in the historical museum was collected for many years, they were transferred here mainly by private collectors, the main part of the collection is in storage facilities closed to visitors however, some are displayed next to american coins and bills, our goal in this gallery is to show american history in a global context .

music plays) ♪ [melody starya mobley] all my uniforms and forestry tools are in the national museum of african american historyre, managed by the smithsonian institute. my name is also on the wall of honor in the national museum of the american indian. really, i was interested in forestry much younger than my teenage years because my mom died when i was 15. but before that, when i was 9, 10, 11, she would take us out, in the countryside, in our '63 falcon. all the kids would pile in--there were three kids. and we would just go out in the country and find a pretty spot and look at leaves, or, or salamanders, or crayfish, or whatever. and mom really instilled that love of nature in me. i have pictures of myself when i was two and three years old, hugging a tree with my mom near me. i wanted to be a zoologist. but...because mom had died and there were a lot of bills, and then grandmother died, and there were even more bills to pay, i had to find a permanent job. and the forest service wouldn't allow me to be a wildlife biologist. they wanted the first black female forester. so, i switched my major to forest manag

lonnie bunch is also the former head of the smithsonian's national museum of african-american historyoining us now are "the washington post" reporters nicole dungca and claire healy. we welcome you to democracy now! lay out this scope of this project and from where you were speaking in this video report. >> thank you for having us. to start, we started looking at the brain collection which has 255 brains. that is just what they have today. we found evidence they had 268 overall and some were cremated and four were repatriated. that is just a fraction of what they have in human remains total. they have 30,700 sets of human remains. to give you a sense of what that means, each of those numbers is a set of human remains not an individual. so the number of people who are in this collection is higher than that 30,000. amy: so talk -- >> and the 30,000 comes from at least 80 countries around the world. amy: name the anthropologist. talk about his motivations and where he went to gather these skulls, overwhelmingly not given consent by families. >> he was the head curator of the division of

applying for jobs and she's graduating my first job out of college, i worked at the national museum of american history and i, i got that because i went to the museum because. i love museums and i walked into this exhibit and there was a klan robe hanging. you had to kind of almost walk around in the national museum on the national mall. and i was like, really? you can do that. you you can tell the truth, you know? and i was so thrilled by that exhibit, which was produced by someone who was actually of this tradition of african american museums and has gone on to do amazing work. and i wrote him a letter and said, can i work for you? he said, well, i can't pay anyway. let's talk a little bit about the last section, which is about patriotic practices. i wondered, i know you earlier in your remarks, the pledge of allegiance, but i wondered if you could talk a little bit more to all of us about the work that those practices do and why they're important to scrutinize. yeah, i write about the pledge. i also write about colin kaepernick and the anthem i think is a an important story track because. he was bei

damien thomas, who is the sports curator at the national museum of african-american history and culture. hi, damian, good morning. good morning. thank you for having me. i'm excited to participate in this conversation. glad to have you on and maybe sometime we'll actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. our other guest is my former colleague dr. daniel green. danny is president of the newberry library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museum's current special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. and so we're glad to bring him back to share some of that knowledge. hi danny i had no. thanks. how are things in chicago? things are all right. as much as anywhere. we ask you our viewers to please post your questions for our experts in the comment section and we'll get to as many of them live in the course of the show as we are able. also if you experience any technical glitches during the course of the show, don't worry about it. don'

he was also the founding director of the national museum of african american history and culture. s here in the studio is janai nelson, president and director counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. and i'd like to start, if we could, by talking about the history of the march, which i think is always important and instructive. mr. bunch, it was bayard rustin, as you well know, who organized the march on washington. and at the time, there had been any number of marches across the south. but the idea that hundreds of thousands of people would answer the call and come to washington, d.c., that was unheard of. how was he able to pull together what was the largest demonstration the country had ever seen in a matter of months? lonnie: well, i think it's important to realize that they really worked on this for several years. but with a. philip randolph's leadership and bayard rustin, what they realized is this was an opportunity to sort of bring together people from the civil rights organizations as well as from the united auto work or

of arts in the textile conservation studios at the philadelphia museum of art and the american textile history museum in u.s. senate national ecm's in his native uk is in professionals as a member of the american institute for conservation of historic and act as works and is the current board member of the north american textile conservation conference. howard received a bachelor of design and constructed textiles with honors from jordan sten college of art and the university of dundee in scotland received a postgraduate textile conservation with credit from the textile conservation center hampton court palace and affiliation with the institute of bard at the university of -- and he received a masters of the arts in museum and gallery management with merit from the school of cultural policy from the city of university in london. howard it's an honor to have you join us. welcome and thank you so much and now i will turn it over to you. >> thank you. that all makes me sound really old with all that stuff but that may share my screen. here we go. hopefully you can all see that. so, thank you jen and thank you leah. i have not