PUBLICATIONS BY ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM RESEARCH AND
COLLECTIONS STAFF
Articles, Papers, and Presentations
Alcione Amos
“Contrabands: Camps and Lives.” PowerPoint presentation, 2013 POWERPOINT
“The Price of Freedom.” In Smithsonian in the Civil War: Inside the National Collection, 40–41.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2013.
“O babalaô fala: a autobiografia de Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim” [“The Babalawo Speaks: The
Autobiography of Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim”]. Translator from English into Portuguese and
author of text commentary. Afro-Asia 46 (2012).
http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77023761007
“The Living Legacy of Lorenzo Dow Turner: The First African-American Linguist.” Guest
Editor. Special issue of Black Scholar 41 (2011).
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5816/blackscholar.41.2.0056
“The History of the Afro-Brazilian Community in Togo: with Special Emphasis on the Olympio
Family.” In Back to Africa: Afro-Brazilian Returnees and Their Communities, 121–144. Edited
by Kwesi Kwaa Prah. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
(CASAS), 2009.
“’Eu Sou Brasileiro´: A História dos Tabom, Afro-brasileiros em Acra, Gana.” [I am Brazilian:
The History of the Tabon Afro-Brazilians in Accra, Ghana.] Afro-Ásia 33 (2005): 35–65.
http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/770/77003302.pdf
“’I am Brazilian’: History of the Tabon Afro-Brazilians in Accra, Ghana.” Transactions of the
Historical Society of Ghana, New Series, No. 6 (2002): 35-58.
“Afro-Brasileiros no Togo: A História da Família Olympio: 1882–1945” [Afro-Brazilians in
Togo: the History of the Olympio Family, 1882- 1945]. Afro-Ásia 23 (2000): 175–197.
http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77002306
Ariana Curtis
“Latinidad in Black Spaces.” PowerPoint presentation delivered at the Remapping the Black
Atlantic: (Re)Writings of Race and Space Conference at DePaul University, April 2013. PDF
Joshua M. Gorman
“Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go: Museums in Anacostia in Changing Times.”
Paper delivered at International Committee for Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities,
ICOM, Rio de Janeiro, 2013.
Portia James
“The Most Pleasant and Healthful Place in All the Country.” In East of the River: Continuity and
Change. Edited by Gail S. Lowe. Washington, DC: Anacostia Community Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, 2010.
“Building a Community-based Identity at Anacostia Museum.” In Issues in Heritage, Museums
and Galleries: An Introductory Reader. Edited by Gerard Corsane. Routledge, 2005.
“Invention and Innovation, 1619-1930.” In Technology and the African-American Experience:
Needs and Opportunities for Study. Edited by Bruce Sinclair. MIT Press, 2004.
"Changing Role of the Curator." MAAM Forum, June 1997.
"Exhibitions and Building a Community-based Identity at Anacostia Museum." Curator, March
1996.
"Black Immigrant Community Life in Washington, D.C.: A Public History Approach.” Trotter
Review, July 1996.
Gail S. Lowe
“Lessons Learned from the exhibition Reclaiming the Edge: Urban Waterways and Civic
Engagement.” Presentation (with John R. Wennersten, PhD) on environmental history for the
Baltimore City Historical Society at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore, Maryland,
March 22, 2014.
“Congress Heights: A Many-Layered Past.” In Washington At Home, revised edition, edited by
Kathryn Schneider Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2010.
“D.C. Marching Bands’ Step through Time.” The Washington Informer, March 1-7, 2007.
“Remarks at the Reception for Reclaiming Midwives [exhibition], December 4, 2005” along with
article “At the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum: ‘Reclaiming Midwives: Pillars of Community
Support’” in ICTC News, volume 3, issue 1 (Winter 2006): 15 [newsletter published by the
International Center for Traditional Childbearing].
Jennifer Morris
“Documenting Underrepresented Communities at the Anacostia Community Museum.”
Presentation at “Americana,” the annual symposium hosted by Student Archivists at Maryland,
University of Maryland, College Park, February 24, 2014.
“From Local to Global: Evolution of Collection Care at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community
Museum.” Paper for a panel at the Association of African American Museums Annual
Conference, Baltimore, MD, August 23, 2012.
“Connecting Communities: Cataloguing the Diasporic Collections of Lorenzo Dow Turner.”
Showcase presenter for “15 Years Digitizing the Smithsonian/Projects Supported by the CIS
IRM Pool” at the National Museum of the American Indian, June 15, 2012.
“Crossing A Barrier of Footlights Opera: Mary Caldwell and Madame Lillian Evanti.” Copresenter, District of Columbia Public Library/Georgetown, February 17, 2012.
“Researching Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital.” Panelist at the “Civil Rights Preservation
Forum,” Howard University, July 9, 2011.
“Madame Evanti.” In The National Museum of African American History and Culture in
collaboration with the National Museum of American History, The Scurlock Studio and Black
Washington: Picturing the Promise, edited by Paul Gardullo, 170–171. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Books, 2009.
“Implementing Archival Collecting in TMS.” Presentation at “Demonstrations of In-House
Archival Content & Management Systems,” Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
April 14, 2009.
“Singing in the Background: African American Opera in Early 20th Century Washington, the
Evans-Tibbs Collection.” Paper for the 34th Annual Washington Studies Conference, November
2, 2007.
Books and Catalogs
Alcione Amos
Os Que Voltaram: A História dos Retornados Afro-brasileiros na África Ocidental no Século 19
[Those who returned: The History of the Afro-Brazilians in West Africa in the 19th Century].
Belo Horizonte: Tradição Planalto Editora, 2007.
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom Seeking People. Co-editor and reviser. Gainesville:
Florida University Press, 1996.
Joshua M. Gorman
Building a Nation: Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Gail S. Lowe
East of the River: Continuity and Change. Editor. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Anacostia
Community Museum, 2010.
Martin-Felton, Zora and Gail Sylvia Lowe. A Different Drummer: John Kinard and the
Anacostia Museum, 1967-1989. Washington, D.C.: Anacostia Museum, 1993.
A Bio-bibliography of American Reformers, 1865-1917: with a case study of temperanceprohibition. PhD diss., George Washington University, 1992.
Hutchinson, Louise D. and Gail Sylvia Lowe. "Kind regards of S. G. Brown": Selected poems of
Solomon G. Brown Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.
Portia James
The Black Washingtonians, 300 Years of African American History; The Anacostia Museum
Illustrated Chronology. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
The Real McCoy: African American Invention and Innovation, 1619-1930. Washington, D.C.:
Published for the Anacostia Museum by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.