The NHD at NMAAHC Collection Connection Grid 2018: Conflict and Compromise in History
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cultures +4
Age Levels Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old), Adults
Welcome to the National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection Grid for the 2018 NHD Theme!
Below are some documents, images, objects and videos to help you explore the 2018 NHD theme: Conflict and Compromise in History. These documents, images, objects and videos are intended to help highlight the African American experience and perspective in American and international history.
These documents, images, objects and videos may help you form an idea for a project topic or they may help to expand the narrative of your selected project. Click on the text icon for possible project connections, questions to help with analysis, creative activities, and/or the paper clip icon to reveal questions or comments to spark your curiosity.
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General Lafayette
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Receipt for payment to Jack Little for his service in the Continental Army
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields on the Approach of the British, (painting)
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
Woman's African-style Headwrap
National Museum of American History
Bible belonging to Nat Turner
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Carte-de-visite of Thomas Wiggins, also known as Blind Tom
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns
National Portrait Gallery
"Gold Washers" Snuff Box
National Museum of American History
The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States, to take effect January 1st, 1863
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Tintype of a Civil War soldier
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Gordon under medical inspection
National Portrait Gallery
Carte-de-visite of a sailor named Jim
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Tintype of Creed Miller with star-shaped military identification pin
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Edmonia Lewis
National Portrait Gallery
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Lithographic print of Hiram Revels
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Beverage service from Wormley's Hotel
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
National Museum of African American History and Culture
A Visit from the Old Mistress
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Heroes of the Colored Race
National Portrait Gallery
How Buffalo Soldiers Paved the Way for the West
Smithsonian Channel
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
National Portrait Gallery
Troop A, Ninth U.S. Cavalry -- Famous Indian Fighters
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Catalogue of the Hampton Institute. 1886-87.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
He's Up Against The Real Thing Now
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Flag for Alpha Kappa Alpha
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Mary Church Terrell
National Portrait Gallery
Booker T. Washington
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photographic postcard of Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clinching
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Banner with motto of Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
National Museum of African American History and Culture
W.E.B. Du Bois
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Communion dish used by the Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church in Lyles Station
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photograph of Lucille Brown among Poro agents and one small child
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cap for a sleeping car porter
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Colored Soldiers who covered themselves with glory in France, returning to US
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Pinback button featuring a portrait of Bessie Coleman
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photographic postcard of Daniel Hendricks in Masonic regalia
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Crisis Vol. 15 No. 6
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Stock certificate issued by Black Star Line to Percival L. Burrows
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Love Will Find a Way
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Langston Hughes
National Portrait Gallery
Josephine Baker
National Portrait Gallery
Negro men and women working in a field, Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation. Natchitoches, Louisiana
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Untitled, from the project The Most Crowded Block
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Photograph of James Lane firing a gun on the deck of the USS Indianapolis
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Hand tinted portrait of Pauline C. Cookman in uniform
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photographic postcard of U.S. Navy sailors and an officer
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Overton Park Zoo. Memphis, TN
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Training aircraft used by Tuskegee Institute
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Ralph J. Bunche
National Portrait Gallery
Dress designed by Ann Lowe
National Museum of African American History and Culture
James Baldwin conversing with sailors from the U.S. Sixth Fleet in front of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, 1965
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Alabama Fire Department Aims High-Pressure Water Hoses at Civil Rights Demonstrators
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Walking
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Coming Into Montgomery
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Marchers with Flags in Front of the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Flier for the Troops for the Black Nation
National Museum of African American History and Culture
A Political Biography of Angela Davis
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols on Uhura's Radical Impact
Smithsonian Channel
"The Funniest Woman in the World:" Moms Mabley Onstage
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Vietnam tour jacket with black power embroidery
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Revolutionary
National Museum of African American History and Culture
People’s Free Food Program, Palo Alto, California, 1972
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photograph of Run DMC and Jam Master Jay
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Flier for the Public Enemy album There's a Poison Goin On
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Playbill for Fences
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Past/Present/Future Memory, Legislation, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
