women of the Progressive Era led the fight against overcrowded cities, poverty, 

 alcoholism, child labor, public health hazards, poor working conditions, and other 

 emerging social problems. 



June 30 



Publication: The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education published Resource 

 Guide for Teachers, a catalogue of all educational resources available from the 

 Institution, as well as from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Reading 

 Is Fundamental, and the National Gallery of Art. 



July 



Course: The Natural Science Institute for Teachers of Minority Students, a three-week 

 summer program organized by the Office of Education, National Museum of Natural 

 History, and funded by the D.C. Public Schools, featured instruction on "reading" natural 

 history objects for teachers of grades four through 12. Twenty-four teachers enrolled in 

 the course, which took them to museums and research centers in the Washington, D.C, 

 metropolitan area. 



July 



Publication: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries published an illustrated lecture based 

 on an Isaac Newton manuscript in the Libraries' collections. Alchemical Death and 

 Resurrection: Alchemy in the Age of Newton, by Professor B.J.T. Dobbs of 

 Northwestern University, was originally presented as part of the lecture series, "Death 

 and the Afterlife in Art and Literature," sponsored by the Washington Collegium for the 

 Humanities, of which the Smithsonian Libraries is a member. 



July 



Workshops: The Si/Man and the Biosphere Program conducted its first professional 

 training workshops in Brazil and Guatemala. The courses focused on the conservation of 

 natural resources and the management of biological diversity. 



July 



Speech: Assistant Secretary for External Affairs Thomas Lovejoy spoke on 

 environmental issues at the annual weekend retreat for Democratic members of the U.S. 

 Senate. 



July-August 



Grant: The Shell Oil Company Foundation supported a film series, "African Folktales in 

 Film," and a curatorial intern at the National Museum of African Art. 



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