Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact
As it always does, given enough time
Readers Respond to the March Issue
In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as a photographer who captured the range of her vibrant personality
GNP or GNH?
At the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rococo experiences a revival
Hot Horns
Composer Irving Berlin wrote scores of hits on his custom-built instrument
Smithsonian regents tap engineer, educator G. Wayne Clough as the Institution's next Secretary
Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander's mastery
A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer's staying power
Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance
An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine's last remaining year-round island communities
How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city
Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
A new survey upends the conventional wisdom about who counts in American history
America's oldest primate, ocean dead zones and alligator lungs
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