<Li> Season two of Stories from the Vaults starring Tom Cavanagh premiered July 12, 2009 . </Li> <Li> Mystery of the Hope Diamond--On August 19, 2009, the Smithsonian Institution announced that the Hope Diamond was to get a temporary new setting to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Harry Winston's donation of the gem stone to the National Museum of Natural History . Starting in September, the 45.52 - carat (9.104 g) diamond would be exhibited as a stand - alone gem with no setting . From August 19, 2009 through September 7, 2009, the public was invited to vote online for their favorite Harry Winston designed setting, at SmithsonianChannel.com/hope . The winning setting would be announced this fall and the gem would be shown in the setting starting in May, along with a Smithsonian Networks documentary . </Li> <Li> Soul of a People: Writing America's Story--A National Endowment for the Humanities - funded documentary about the Federal Writers' Project featuring interviews with notable project alumni Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, and American historian Douglas Brinkley . Premiered September 6, 2009 . </Li> <Li> MLK: The Assassination Tapes produced by 1895 FILMS for Smithsonian Channel premiered on February 12, 2012 and received a Peabody Award . The winner's citation for the Peabody Award describes the documentary as "(p) ainstakingly configured from rare footage collected at the University of Memphis in 1968...leading up to the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and its aftermath ." </Li>

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