Members of the list might be interested in a new book: "Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian," edited by Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997). Essays include: Exhibiting Memories, by Steven Lubar * For Museum Audiences: The Morning of a New Day, by William Truettner * The Hope Diamond: Gem, Jewel, and Icon, by Richard Kurin * Herbert Ward's "Ethnographic Sculptures" of Africans, by Mary Jo Arnoldi *Capable of Flight: The Saga of the 1903 Wright Airplane, by Tom Crouch *Crystal Skulls and Other Problems: Or, "Don't Look It in the Eye," by Jane Maclaren Walsh * Curating the Recent Past: The Woolworth Lunch Counter, Greensboro, North Carolina, by William Yeingst and Lonnie G. Bunch * The Unstifled Muse: The "All in the Family" Exhibit and Popular Culture at the National Museum of American History, by Ellen Roney Hughes * Zuni Archangels and Ahayu:da: A Sculpted Chronicle of Power and Identity, by William Merrill and Richard Ahlborn * Ambassadors in Sealskins: Exhibiting Eskimos at the Smithsonian, by William Fitzhugh * Curators as Agents of Change: An Insect Zoo for the Nineties, by Sally Love *And Now for Something Completely Different: Reconstructing Duke Ellington's "Beggar's Holiday" for Presentation in a Museum Setting, by Dwight Blocker Bowers Michael Kammen sums up the message of the book: "This book is a courageous and candid affirmation of the educational and interpretive responsibilities of history museums.... The authors provide eloquent recognition of the need to negotiate a popular yet thoroughly professional path between history and memory, celebration and commemoration." Steven Lubar ([log in to unmask]) 202-357-2371 Division of the History of Technology National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution