Preserving a Cold War legacy

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The need to preserve military sites of the Cold War has been highlighted in the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program. Some states, including Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma do not seem to consider it necessary to preserve recent historic sites. However efforts are on to preserve the resources that can serve as important records of the history of the Cold War. The ruins of nuclear testing grounds and missile defense batteries are being studied for conservation.

Planning, Protection and preservation, Historic sites, United States. Department of Defense, Cold War, 1945-1991, Military history

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The Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women; Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian

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Two exhibitions of Native American art are discussed: an exhibition of 28 Native American women potters (Oct, 9, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998) and an exhibition of 19th-century Navajo textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian (Nov. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998), both at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Exhibitions, Native American art, Native American pottery, Navajos

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Hunting fakes: A Smithsonian sleuth says counterfeits lurk in museum collections the world over

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An anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Jane Walsh, is known for her work with museum collections and for exposing several crystal skulls. She is working with several museums to create a database that can be used to identify bogus Precolumbian jade, crystal, and other stone artifacts.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Anthropologists, Interview, Walsh, Jane

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