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THE SMITHSONIAN’S HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 101 OBJECTS RICHARD KURIN THE PENGUIN PRESSS COPYRIGHT © 2013 BY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY Records for almost eight million items in the Smithsonian’s collections are found online at http://collections.si.edu/search/, and have been used in the research for each of the objects in this volume. Wikipedia was also generally used for many of the entries and for information on the people and places related to the objects and is not referenced repeatedly below. Those Web sites that are listed were accessed between August 2012 and July 2013. Citations for direct quotes save from Smithsonian sources and where obvious in the text are noted in the appendix of the published book. The following are sources used in the research for and writing of the book. INTRODUCTION “America’s Museums,” in Daedalus, special issue, vol. 128, no. 1, 1999. America’s Smithsonian, Celebrating 150 Years (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996). 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