| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Web Site Review

History Wired: A Few of Our Favorite Things <http://historywired.si.edu/index.html>. Created and maintained by the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Reviewed July 2002.

Launched in August 2001, the Smithsonian's innovative Web site History Wired is designed to provide a virtual "private tour through the . . . storage areas" of the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Four-fifths of the 450 objects featured are not on display in the museum. Selected by NMAH curators, who one imagines must have agonized over the choice of their "favorite things," the objects represent the breadth and depth of the Smithsonian's unparalleled holdings. Here are George Washington's tent and Eli Whitney's cotton gin, the first Singer sewing machine and the ENIAC computer, Mary Todd Lincoln's silver service and Shirley Chisholm's campaign buttons. The site aims to present information "conversationally," and the explanatory text is indeed written in an accessible and engaging style. The curatorial information is minimal (but adequate); the site concentrates on providing context for the objects. Every object is explained in at least one paragraph, and most pages give users the option to click and "Learn More." . . .

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