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Alexander von Humboldt: The Man Who History Forgot

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Who Was Alexander von Humboldt?

Smithsonian curator Eleanor Jones Harvey explains why this revolutionary 19th-century thought leader is due for a reconsideration

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How the Revolutionary Thinker Alexander von Humboldt Helped to Create the Smithsonian

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A Brush With Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church