Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Finally, a Holocaust survivor who came to the U.S. after World War II and went on to become an NMAH curator is represented by a device she donated to the collections. The objects included are arranged ...