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  this quick-motion team turned into made up of historians and curators from the country wide museum of american history (nmah), one in all 19 museums within the smithsonian institution’s complex. tracing the yank experience from colonial instances to the existing, the kingdom’s superior history museum consists of more than three million historical objects—along with the big name-spangled banner and the stovepipe hat abraham lincoln wore to ford’s theatre at the night time he was assassinated. there’s also an endless array of fun cultural touchpoints, from dorothy’s ruby slippers in the wizard of ouncesto duke ellington’s sheet tune to a reproduction of julia baby’s domestic kitchen. within the extensive sense, the “people’s records museum” collection explores the evolution of the american identity, which can be messy, painful and at times unflattering. “it stems from our long history of amassing round political and social and cultural change,” said andrea m. hartig, the museum’s direc