During the hearing, Bunch acknowledged the work of the Center as a model for the rest of the Smithsonian.

This was my very first Seder, held at a group house in Washington, D.C., lovingly nicknamed “The Nest.”

Meredith Holmgren is part of a new curatorial team that will spotlight little-known stories, historical collections, and present-day issues of women in the United States.

For the second year in a row, staff members at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage received the Secretary’s Research Prize.

On one hot August evening, A Tribe Called Red turned the National Museum of the American Indian into a dance party.

Listen to an interview with Arrington de Dionyso about his early inspirations from Folkways Records, the merits of explicit versus implicit political art, and his motivations to create collaborative and challenging music.

When there has been a constant ringing in your ears for your entire life, you learn to appreciate noise. Outside it may be traffic, airplanes, birds, and bugs drowning out the internal buzz. In an office, the drone of air conditioning, fluorescent lights, and a digital projector.

In this audio feature excerpted from the discussion, Che “Rhymefest” Smith gave powerful examples of a song’s ability to change history.