![]() ![]() This humanistic approach to storytelling makes for immersive, addictive reading." Dr. Kurin does a terrific job of expanding upon the story of each object, whether it's a pair of slave shackles or a damaged door from one of the New York City fire trucks that responded to 9/11. Unexpected selections.make book even more engrossing. Even.well-known items have surprising and significant back stories. As was noted of this book in a starred review in Publishers Weekly: "Kurin done a masterful job. ![]() Kurin is also the author of a new book, "The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects," which gathers devices and artifacts of all sorts, and from all periods of our history - from the pre-Columbian era on this continent to the digital age, from the American Revolution to Vietnam, from the Great Depression to 9/11. An anthropologist and cultural historian by training, and a former Fulbright fellow with a doctorate from the University of Chicago, Dr. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian Institution's Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, who oversees most of the organization's various museums as well as many of its educational programs. ![]() On this installment of ST, we speak by phone with Dr. ![]()
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