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2014-09-03: Three Questions with William Souder

2014-07-02: Born and Died on the Fourth of July

2014-06-19: Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: June 19, 1953

2014-06-06: 70th Anniversary of D-Day

2014-05-30: 150 Years Ago, May 1864: Many Reasons to Grieve

2014-05-07: The Wilderness: Grant and Lee Begin the Long Ending of the War

2014-04-30: Brooks Robinson: Oriole Start to Finish

2014-04-18: More, and Sometimes Less, Than a Pretty Face

2014-04-07: Maya Angelou: Poet, Playwright, Author, Activist

2014-04-02: March Madness: The National Portrait Gallery Final Four

2014-03-20: A Group Portrait from Civil War Cinema

2014-02-24: Henry Aaron: A Hammering Career

2014-02-07: The Mysterious Calculus of Cool

2013-12-12: Football as Ritual: The 1963 Army-Navy Game

2013-12-05: Chattanooga, Knoxville: The Fight for the Deep South

2013-11-22: Portrait of a Moment, November 22, 1963

2013-11-19: The Gettysburg Address at 150

2013-11-08: New Book: Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection

2013-10-30: Nelson Shanks's The Four Justices

2013-09-18: Chickamauga: West Pointers Clash Again

2013-08-28: The March on Washington, Part II: "The Dream"

2013-08-21: The March on Washington, Part I: "Freedom Was Contagious"

2013-08-09: The Ascent of Gerald Ford

2013-08-07: Marvin Sadik, 1932-2013

2013-07-22: Helen Thomas: 1920-2013

2013-07-01: The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863: Personalities, Heroics, and a Much-Needed Union Victory

2013-06-28: From Chancellorsville to Gettysburg

2013-06-21: Thomas McKenney by Charles Loring Elliot

2013-05-03: Chancellorsville, Part Two: The Confederacy's Pyrrhic Moment

2013-05-01: Chancellorsville, Part One: Once Again, Across the Rappahannock

2013-04-26: Beneath the Surface, an Unusual Installation

2013-03-15: The Death of the Gallant Pelham

2013-02-22: George Washington: The First Face of America

2013-02-11: Fifty Years Ago Today, February 11, 1963: The Death of Sylvia Plath

2013-02-04: Losing to Win: Rosa Parks at 100

2013-01-23: Stan Musial, 1920-2013

2o13-01-09: From the Kitchens of America, Happy 100th Birthday to President Richard M. Nixon

2012-12-13: The Battle for Fredericksburg, Part II

2012-12-12: The Battle of Fredericksburg, Part I: Burnside and the Road to Richmond

2012-12-11: The Network: A Portrait

2012-12-02: Portrait of Colin Powell Unveiled

2012-11-15: Colorful at 125: Happy Birthday, Georgia O'Keeffe

2012-11-02: Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012

2012-10-05: Chester Arthur: A Birthplace Controversy, 1880

2012-09-21: An Angel, a Bridge, and an Emancipation: The Aftermath of Antietam

2012-09-17: Antietam: The Worst of Days, September 17, 1862

2012-09-14: Going to Antietam: Invading a Peaceful Place

2012-09-07: Why Walt?

2012-08-30: August 28-30, 1862: Return to Manassas, Prelude to Antietam

2012-08-27: The Day Everything Changed

2012-07-30: Robert E. Lee: Early Victories, Raising Confederate Hopes

2012-07-13: One Hundred Years, One Thousand Songs

2012-06-22: LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012

2012-06-15: 1812: The War that United the United States

2012-06-08: Miguel Covarrubias, Caricatures of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance

2012-05-25: Stonewall Jackson and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862

2012-05-18: May 18: Happy Birthday to Brooks Robinson and Reggie Jackson

2012-05-10: Walker Percy, 1916-1990

2012-04-23: Space Shuttle Discovery Arrives at the Smithsonian

2012-04-13: John Glenn in Space, From Friendship 7 to Discovery

2012-04-06: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862

2012-04-04: American in Space: Alan Shepard's Memorable Moments

2012-03-21: A Moveable Force: The Resonance of the Expatriate Experience

2012-03-02: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

2012-02-16: February 6-16, 1862: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant and the Fall of Forts Henry and Donelson

2012-02-10: "When the Astors Owned New York" by Justin Kaplan

2012-02-02: Portrait of Fred Korematsu Unveiled, February 2, 2012

2012-01-27: The Death of John James Audubon, January 27, 1851

2012-01-06: 1862: Bloody Momentum

2011-12-16: A Portrait of Santa?

2011-12-07: Pearl Harbor: The Seventieth Commemorative Anniversary

2011-12-01: Woody Allen's 76th Birthday, December 1, 2011

2011-11-23: Presidential Birthdays for Thanksgiving Week

2011-11-18: Lincoln and McClellan: An Army Ready for War

2011-11-08: Joe Frazier, 1944-2011

2011-11-03: November 4, 1948: What's That, Now?

2011-10-26: A New Man in Charge: George B. McClellan (Part 3)

2011-10-12: A New Man in Charge: George B. McClellan (Part 2)

2011-09-28: A New Man in Charge: George B. McClellan (Part 1)

2011-09-09: Portrait of September 11, 2001

2011-09-08: Ford Pardons Nixon: September 8, 1974

2011-09-01: Taking the Constitution to Task: Pauline Morton Smith Sabin Davis

2011-08-25: A New Monumental Presence: MLK on the National Mall

2011-08-10: The Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861: The Death of a General

2011-08-05: Loving Lucy at 100: Lucille Ball, 1911-1989

2011-07-21: The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run

2011-07-14: Betty Ford: A Legacy among First Ladies

2011-07-08: Ronald Wilson Reagan: Humor in the Highest Office

2011-06-30: From Fort Sumter to Bull Run

2011-06-15: Who is that Frenchman on Seventh Street? Part Three: Appearance and Impact

2011-06-10: Who is that Frenchman on Seventh Street? Part Two: The Monument's Creator and Its Early History

2011-06-02: Who is that Frenchman on Seventh Street? Part One

2011-05-27: Is it Washington's or Lincoln's DC?

2011-05-12: A Quick and Effective Change: Cameron to Stanton, and Administrating the Civil War

2011-04-27: Andrew Young and the New South

2011-04-22: Happy Birthday, John Waters and Jack Nicholson

2011-04-15: James Cash Penney, 1876-1971

2011-04-08: The Eve of War: The Moments and Months Leading to the Attack on Fort Sumter

2011-03-24: My Three Moments with Elizabeth Taylor

2011-03-15: NPG Civil War Commemoration: Talking to the Scholars

2011-03-04: March 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration

2011-02-18: Presidents' Day Math: the Case for an October Presidents' Month

2011-02-04: Michael Jordan: Driving Force in the Paint and in the Marketplace

2011-01-26: Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 1915–2011

2011-01-14: Elvis's Last Stand

2011-01-07: Mississippi Joins South Carolina in Secession, January 9, 1861

2010-12-21: Elvis Presley Meets President Richard Nixon

2010-12-20: The Secession of South Carolina, December 20, 1860

2010-12-14: Patti Smith at NPG 

2010-11-30: Happy 175th Birthday to Mark Twain, the Eminently Quotable American

2010-11-19: Abraham Lincoln Elected President, Part III: Overcoming Adversaries and Preserving the Union

2010-11-12: Abraham Lincoln Elected President, Part II: The War and the Presidency Served to Age the Man

2010-11-05: Abraham Lincoln Elected President, November 6, 1860, Part One

2010-10-27: President Theodore Roosevelt's 152nd Birthday - Bully!

2010-10-22: The Return of the King!

2010-10-19: Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol: Destined to Meet

2010-10-05: Birth of Jonathan Edwards

2010-09-29: Death of Winslow Homer, September 29, 1910

2010-09-24: Fiftieth Anniversary of the John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon Debates, part 2

2010-09-21: Fiftieth Anniversary of the John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon Debates, part 1

2010-09-08: Birthday of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Hero of Little Round Top

2010-09-07: Happy 150th Birthday, Grandma Moses!

2010-09-02: In the Spirit of the United States Open, Happy Fifty-eighth Birthday Jimmy Connors

2010-08-26: Lindy Hot Then Not Then Hot Again

2010-08-19: Birthday of Ogden Nash

2010-08-16: August 16, 1977—The Death of Elvis

2010-08-13: Fears of the Fearless FDR: A President’s Superstitions for Friday the 13th

2010-08-06: Clarence King: Man of Maps, Mines, and Mystery

2010-07-02: Rules of Civility for the Fourth of July Weekend

2010-07-16: Nighttime Surprise: Bayonet Assault at Stony Point, July 16, 1779

2010-06-07: John Wooden, 1910–2010

2010-06-11: Celtics Versus Lakers: A Recurring Chapter in American Sports History

2010-06-17: Johnny Cash: Walking the Line

2010-06-18: Truth, Lies, Parson Weems, and Walt Disney

2010-06-21: Joe DiMaggio: 1914-1999

2010-06-25: One Year Later: Remembering Michael Jackson

2010-05-07: Remembering Dorothy Height

2010-05-21: Protocol of Portrait Display of the U.S. President, Vice President, & Cabinet Members

2010-05-28: Elvis in the Army by Howard Finster

2010-04-06: The United States Enters World War I

2010-04-08: Birthday of America's Sweetheart: Mary Pickford

2010-04-20: Birthday of Daniel Chester French

2010-04-23: Robert Penn Warren, born April 24, 1905

2010-04-27: Carl of the Cosmos

2010-04-28: Portrait of Elvis Presley by Red Grooms

2010-03-29: Catalog of American Portraits Inquiry: Presidential Portraits

2010-02-12: Valentine's Day + President's Day = Millard Fillmore

2010-02-22: Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor: A Short Memoir of What Happened to Fifty Percent of My Comedy Album Collection

2010-01-08: Portrait of Elvis Presley by Ralph Wolfe Cowan

2010-01-15: Portrait of Muhammad Ali by Henry Casselli

2010-01-22: Elvis Aron Presley by Robert Arneson

2010-01-29: W. C. Fields, Born January 29, 1880

2009-12-04: Bring on the Year of Elvis!

2009-12-14: Sorry, We Don’t Give Appraisals

2009-12-18: Thomas Hoving: The Man Who Made the Mummies Dance

2009-11-13: Portrait of Marilyn Horne Donated to the National Portrait Gallery

2009-11-18: Death of President Chester Alan Arthur, November 18, 1886

2009-11-25: For Thanksgiving: A Note on Audubon and a Recipe from Elvis

2009-10-02: This Semester: Nathaniel Hawthorne

2009-10-29: Edgar Allan Poe, America’s Doomed Genius

2009-09-01: September 1, 1939

2009-09-11: September 11, 2001

2009-09-15: Happy 220th Birthday to James Fenimore Cooper

2009-09-22: Tommy Lasorda joins the collection of the National Portrait Gallery

2009-08-04: Nolan Ryan versus Robin Ventura, August 4, 1993

2009-08-26: Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1932–2009

2009-08-28: Adapting Whitman to the Stage: Swift to My Wounded

2009-07-17: Andrew Johnson: Reviled and Dutiful Statesman of Tennessee

2009-06-18: Woodrow Wilson, Last of the Virginians

2009-06-12: Happy 85th Birthday to President George Herbert Walker Bush

2009-06-09: Kiss Me Cole, and Happy 118th Birthday

2009-05-29: Walt Whitman’s Birthday

2009-05-06: Portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Nungester Wolfe

2009-04-09: The Catalog of American Portraits

2009-04-03: Portrait of Toni Morrison by Robert McCurdy

2009-03-17: Lincoln: Legend and Lore

2009-02-26: Toni Morrison: Author among Authors

2009-02-12: Happy 200th Birthday, President Lincoln

2009-02-03: Portrait of Cormac McCarthy by Andrew Tift

2008-12-17: Birthday of Joseph Henry, First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

2009-01-08: Elvis Presley, Born 74 Years Ago Today

2009-01-06: January 6, 1759: George and Martha Washington Tie the Knot

2008-12-19: Portraits of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush Unveiled

2008-12-05: FDR and the End of Prohibition 

2008-11-26: Interview with NPG Curator Sid Hart on Herblock Exhibit 

2008-11-21: John F. Kennedy Remembered

2008-11-19: Gettysburg Address 145 Years Ago Today

2008-11-13: Anne Sexton's Awful Rowing Toward Self Annihilation

2008-11-06: Interview with NPG Curator David Ward on The Mask of Lincoln Exhibit

2008-11-04: Presidential Trivia for Election Time Part IV

2008-10-31: Presidential Trivia for Election Time Part III

2008-10-20: Presidential Trivia for Election Time Part II

2008-10-15: Presidential Trivia for Election Time Part I

2008-10-09: Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Silvette

2008-09-25: William Faulkner, born September 25, 1897

2008-08-27: Lyndon Baines Johnson, born August 27, 1908

2008-08-22: Elvis and Isaac: The Memphis Music Legacy

2008-08-08: Book Review: Literary Circles of Washington by Edith Nalle Schafer

2008-07-30: Brett Favre: He's In the News and He's in the Collection

2008-07-25: Happy 212th Birthday to George Catlin!

2008-07-18: Portrait of Leopold Stokowski by Edward Steichen

2008-07-03: An American in Paris, Permanently: The Death of Jim Morrison, July 3, 1971

2008-06-17: Sherwood Anderson: All for Art

2008-04-18: Just the Facts, April 18, 1775, The Real Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

2008-04-15: April 15, A Day of Certainties

2008-04-11: Happy Birthday, Gatsby!

2008-04-10: Charlton Heston long in NPG memory

2008-04-03: 40th Anniversary of the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2008-03-26: One of these things is not like the others...Katharine Hepburn

2008-03-14: The Mask of Lincoln

 

 

Links to Video

  • The Battle of Cedar Creek | C-SPAN
  • William Tecumseh Sherman, Portrait in a Minute
  • Elaine de Kooning, Portrait in a Minute
  • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Portrait in a Minute
  • Interview with Historian Dan Okrent
  • Portrait of John Pelham, Confederate artillery officer
  • Interview with Lincoln Schatz, video artist, discussing The Network
  • Interview with artist Ronald Sherr on his portrait of Colin Powell
  • The Battle of Fredericksburg
  • FDR, Portrait in a Minute
  • Richard Nixon, Portrait in a Minute
  • Lyndon Johnson, Portrait in a Minute
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Portrait in a Minute
  • Ernest Hemingway, Portrait in a Minute
  • Miguel Covarrubias, Caricature Artist of 1920s America
  • Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at the Smithsonian
  • Walt Whitman and the Patent Office Building, Civil War
  • 1862: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant
  • Interview with artist Rossin
  • The Art of Motown - Smithsonian Channel
  • Munson's Hill: Battlefield Trickery in the Civil War
  • Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Portrait of George Custer
  • Warren Perry introduces author Roger Di Silvestro on C-SPAN Book TV
  • The First Battle of Manassas
  • Interview with James Barber on ‪"The Death of Ellsworth" exhibition, National Portrait Gallery‬‏
  • Interview with NPG historian David C. Ward‬‏ - Lincoln's Beard
  • Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Ambrose Burnside, 1861
  • Interview with NPG Historian David Ward - Life Masks of Abraham Lincoln
  • Interviews with Visitors to Hide/Seek Exhibition at NPG
  • Artist interview with photographer Alfred Wertheimer
  • Echoes of Elvis Symposium, National Portrait Gallery
  • Interview with NPG Curator Ellen Miles
  • PBS Newshour - Art Beat: Artists Shake Up Elvis Presley's Image
  • Curator tour of One Life: Echoes of Elvis, at National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian Magazine - Echoes of Elvis
  • Portrait of Walt Whitman, National Portrait Gallery
  • Tommy Lasorda Portrait Dedication Ceremony, National Portrait Gallery

Links to Audio of Gallery Talks and Interviews

  • Gallery Lecture, Red Grooms portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Gallery Lecture, Robert Arneson portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Interview with artist Ralph Cowan on portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Interview with NPG Deputy Director Carolyn Carr on portrait of President Obama
  • Interview with artist Aleksander Titovets and portrait of Laura Bush
  • Gallery Lecture, Andy Warhol Portrait of Michael Jackson
  • Radio interview on Q102 Winchester, VA
  • NPR Interview with Curator Warren Perry on All Things Considered
  • Gallery Lecture, Portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Wolfe
  • Gallery Lecture, Robert McCurdy Portrait of Toni Morrison
  • Interview with Saki Yokoyama Tsuiki, Curator of Education at National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
  • Interview: Warren Perry and David Ward - Lincoln Symposium
  • Gallery Lecture, Ralph Cowan portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Warren Perry on Memphis Music, Elvis Presley and Isaac Hayes
  • Gallery Lecture, David Silvette portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Interview: Warren Perry and Curator David Ward - The Mask of Lincoln
  • Interview: Warren Perry and Curator Sid Hart on Herblock Exhibit
  • Gallery Lecture on FDR and the End of Prohibition

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  • 2014-06-19: Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: June 19, 1953
  • 2014-06-06: 70th Anniversary of D-Day
  • 2014-05-30: 150 Years Ago, May 1864: Many Reasons to Grieve
  • 2014-05-07: The Wilderness: Grant and Lee Begin the Long Ending of the War
  • 2014-04-30: Brooks Robinson: Oriole Start to Finish
  • 2014-04-18: More, and Sometimes Less, Than a Pretty Face
  • 2014-04-07: Maya Angelou: Poet, Playwright, Author, Activist
  • 2014-04-02: March Madness: The National Portrait Gallery Final Four
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