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<p><span class="deck"> So read a welcoming sign over the door of Charles Willson Peale’s great ill-fated museum</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> said a New York newspaper when the Metropolitan opened its American Wing in 1924. This spring, a new, grander American Wing once again displays the collection that Lewis Mumford found “not merely an exhibition of art,” but “a pageant of American history.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> At Bath the British can catch glimpses of their rebellious daughter country’s history in an unusual museum</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> How a brave and gifted woman defied her parents and her background to create the splendid collection that is Shelburne</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Victorian art, collected for patriotism and profit, finds a home in a New York hotel 19</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The vast jumble of objects that once brought solace to an eccentric heiress has become a great museum of the middle class.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">American art was hardly more than a cultural curiosity in the early years of this century. Now, it is among the world’s most influential, and much of the credit belongs to a self-made woman named Juliana Force.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How Creek Indian number 1501 repaid a debt</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reopens after major renovations</span> </p>