The town’s historic hotel magnifies its mastery of the macabre with a chilling new attraction
Bones in Spain suggest a mercury-rich mineral used for art and hallucinogenic trips poisoned a community 5,000 years ago
Aristocrats plotted to kill the Siberian peasant, who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution
Mario Van Peebles' "Outlaw Posse" is the latest attempt to correct the erasure of people of color from the classic cinema genre
A Chicago startup has turned a fungus found by NASA into a protein-packed food
See shots of “the world’s biggest party” from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
Documenting episodes of the phenomenon thousands of years ago may help us predict damaging solar storms in the future
Researchers examined the remnants of a 13th-century fishing site to get a picture of how the marine ecosystem has changed
In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors
With origins in Europe, the assisted climbing routes are springing up at luxury resorts and on private land this side of the Atlantic
A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell's 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia
A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015
An anthropologist explains why we experience many objects, from tennis rackets to cars, as extensions of our bodies
Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries
To mark the February heritage month, these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest offer proof that African American history is timeless
The construction is faster, cleaner and more affordable, but experts acknowledge some trial and error is needed
Mary Cardwell Dawson created unprecedented opportunities for aspiring Black musicians
Indigenous communities from Alaska to Greenland are harnessing information to make their own decisions
Two historians tell us why the pioneering 19th-century feminist, suffragist and abolitionist’s legacy has so frequently been misrepresented
Untold Stories of American History
Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery
Each dramatic episode over the past few years has led to fresh geologic revelations, and researchers think another bout is on the way
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