Spotlight on Diplomacy
Commemorating 100 Years of Our Foreign Service: The 1924 Rogers Act
This Spotlight celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the 1924 Rogers Act, which created the modern-day merit-based U.S. Foreign Service.
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Public Program
From Abolitionist to Diplomat: Henry Highland Garnet and Early Relations with Liberia
To commemorate Black History Month, NMAD’s Historian Dr. Alison Mann will offer a talk on the notable Black abolitionist, Henry Highland Garnet, and his controversial, brief diplomatic appointment in Liberia.
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Book Gifted to Richard Schifter
As a young boy in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s, Richard Schifter would often walk with his father past the Austrian Consular Academy. Richard would tell his parents that one day he wanted to be a diplomat. One time, his father pulled him aside and explained, “We are Jews. Jews can't get…
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Collection Highlights
2023 Wrapped: Our Favorite New Additions to Our Collection
With 2023 coming to a close, the National Museum of American Diplomacy is reflecting on a successful year building the museum’s collections. Here are a…
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Story of Diplomacy
What Are the Helsinki Accords?
On August 1, 1975, the Helsinki Accords, also known as the Helsinki Final Act, were signed. The signing of the Helsinki Accords was a big…
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Public Program
A Conversation with the First Native American Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Keith Harper
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, join us for a conversation with the first Native American to be named a U.S. ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador (ret.) Keith Harper.
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Ambassador Bushnell's Hard Hat
When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi was attacked by a truck bomb in August 1998, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell was present in a neighboring building and injured by the blast. Ambassador Bushnell returned to inspect the damaged embassy the next day. Her staff presented this hard hat for her to…
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Video
What Is Public Diplomacy?
The U.S. Department of State builds relationships with people and governments of other countries in many different ways. While diplomacy is often thought of as…
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Story of Diplomacy
Avraham Rabby: How a Disability Rights Advocate Opened the Door for Blind Diplomats
Avraham Rabby was a lifelong advocate for the rights of those with disabilities, particularly vision loss. Rabby was completely blind, having lost his sight as…
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Guidebook for Blind Job Seekers
Avraham (Rami) Rabby was a lifelong advocate for the rights of those with disabilities, particularly vision loss. He was completely blind, having lost his sight as a child due to detached retinas. He also served as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service for 17 years, a job he had to fight…
