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Bunch, Lonnie

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

Positions

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

  • Book

    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2019. A Fool's Errand: Creating the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture During the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2019
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2016. From No Return: The 221-Year Journey of the Slave Ship Sao Jose. Smithsonian Enterprises. 2016
    • Through the African American Lens.  Ed. Coyle, Laura.  2015
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2010. Call the Lost Dream Back: Essays on History, Race and Museums. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums. 2010
    • Rubenstein, Harry R., Bunch, Lonnie G., III, Crew, Spencer, and Hirsch, Mark. 2009. The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden. Smithsonian Institution Press. 2009
  • Chapter

    • Bunch, Lonnie G. and Lowman, Margaret D. 2024. "Foreword." In Smithsonian Trees of North America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2024
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2021. "Foreword." In Stemming the Tide: Global Strategies for Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Climate Change. Rushfield, Rebecca A., editor. v–vi. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In A Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge, 54. (https://doi.org/10.5479/si.14750727.v1) 2021
    • Bunch, Lonnie G.,III. 2019. "Epilogue: On the Horizon--Toward Civil Rights." In We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity. Conwill, Kinshasha Holman, editor. 136–145. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2019
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2019. "Flies in the Buttermilk: Museums, Diversity, and the Will to Change." In Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums. Cole, Johnnetta Betsch and Lott, Laura L., editors. 3–8. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/American Alliance of Museums. 2019
    • Bunch, Lonnie G.,III. 2019. "Introduction." In We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity. Conwill, Kinshasha Holman, editor. 9–13. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2019
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2017. "Black and Green: The Forgotten Commitment to Sustainability." In Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans. Kress, W. John and Stine, Jeffrey K., editors. 83–86. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2017
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2016. "Afterword." In For Whom It Stands: The Flag and the American People. Wilkinson, Michelle Joan, editor. 104–105. Baltimore, MD: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. 2016
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2016. "Introduction." In Dream A World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America. Conwill, Kinshasha H., editor. 8–13. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2016
    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III. 2007. "Introduction." In Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits. Willis, Deborah, editor. 11–13. Washington,D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2007

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Bunch, Lonnie G., III, Crew, Spencer, and Price, Clement, editors. 2014. Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project (3 vols.). Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood. 2014
    • Gardullo, Paul, Delaney, Michelle Anne, Serwer, Jacquelyn, and Bunch, Lonnie G., III, editors. 2009. The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2009

Presentations

  • Presentation

    • Brogdon-Grantham, Shannon A., Bunch, Lonnie, and McGarity, LaStarsha. 2024. A Conversation about Cultural Heritage [presentation]. Paul R. Jones Annual Distinguished Lecture, October 14, 2024. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Department of Art Conservation.
    • Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, Bunch, Lonnie G.,III, and McCarter, John W., Jr. 2020. Queer Art and Controversy at the Smithsonian: A Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III and John W. McCarter Jr. [presentation]. The Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia Conversation Series, August 4, 2020.

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