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Jones, Jennifer L.

Curator and Project Director

US National flags, including the Star-Spangled Banner; gunboat Philadelphia preservation project; Revolutionary War and twentieth-century U.S. military history; Japanese Americans and World War II; World War II homefront; Vietnam Memorial and Vietnam war; September 11 collecting

Background And Education

Education And Training

Professional Biography

  • Curator and Project Director, Division of Military and Society.

    Project director for the gunboat Philadelphia preservation project; curator of flags, and Star-Spangled Banner.
    Project director for Price of Freedom exhibition, showcasing American military history from the French and Indian War thru to the contemporary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Research on collections, uniforms, flags, and the gunboat Philadelphia.

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Book

    • Lundeberg, Philip K., Cohn, Arthur B., and Jones, Jennifer L. 2017. A Tale of Three Gunboats. Basin Harbor, Vermont: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. 2017
  • Chapter

    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Civil War Belt Plates." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 146–147. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013
    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Civil War Headgear." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 162–167. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013
    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Colors of the 84th Infantry." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 208–209. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013
    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Flags for a New Nation." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 72–73. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013
    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Militia Uniforms." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 78–79. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013
    • Jones, Jennifer L. 2013. "Uniforms at Schuylkill Arsenal." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. 232–235. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2013

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