Sightings

Popular beliefs about work-family issues characterize working moms as having a divided focus on home and work — they are therefore seen as less competent, less committed, and, as a result, less worthy of employment and promotion than men or childless women. more »

The dream of Arcadia, a mythic place of beauty and repose where humankind lives in harmony with nature, has held an enduring appeal for artists since antiquity. With its promise of calm, simplicity, and order, it has served as both an inspiration and as an image of refuge, a place that is distant and seemingly protected from the vicissitudes of life. more »

Curiosity's main assignment is to investigate whether its study area ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. By designing the aeroshell enclosing Curiosity to create lift and be steerable, engineers were able to build a system that lands much more precisely instead of dropping like a rock. Watch a video explaining the '7 minutes of terror'. more »

The exhibit draws from the millions of immigration case files in the Archives to tell a few of these stories from the 1880s through World War II. It also ex­plores the attachment of immigrants to fam­ily and community and the attachment of government organizations to immigration laws that reflected certain beliefs about im­migrants and citizenship. These are dramatic tales of joy and disappointment, opportu­nity and discrimination, deceit and honesty. more »