You may think of the “Big Easy” on Fat Tuesday, but other towns throughout Louisiana and the wider Gulf Coast play host to raucous celebrations
A new film imagines the events that inspired the notoriously private author to write "Wuthering Heights"
Taken a half-century ago, her images strike a contemporary pose
Trips to the 49th state inspired the characters in the writer-illustrator's latest children’s book "Cozy in Love"
Proponents of the teaching method argue that it encourages engagement with the language and the ancient past
The deposed monarch wrote the 57 encrypted messages during her captivity in England
The bones of long-deceased Capuchin friars are painstakingly displayed in a crypt beneath the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Since dieting began in the 1830s, the ever-changing nutritional advice has skimped on science
The immersive exhibition, "The Utopia Project," at the Anacostia Community Museum is about setting high goals and the means for achieving them
A full slate of events honors the painter's life in timing with the 50th anniversary of his death
The author reflects on her classic 1967 novel, its 1983 film adaptation and its legacy today
Born 150 years ago this week, the author was known for her incisive portrayals of women's everyday lives
The retail giant’s mail-order business reigned supreme for more than a century, offering everything from quack cures to ready-to-build homes
The award-winning Beninese artist unveils a work dedicated to the president’s “generosity of heart”
The Stars Are Aligned at the National Museum of American History
Actor Jimmy Vee says climbing inside the droid costume, now on view at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum, is like entering “your own world"
Scheduled to launch this year are new institutions dedicated to punk rock, Amelia Earhart and robots
In January 1928, Tom Howard of the "Daily News" smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments
The painter’s entire “Fighters for Freedom” series is now on view for the first time in more than 75 years
Her mighty contralto propelled her across color lines
Smithsonian curators remember the celebrated artist, who died last month at 98, and who viewed humanity with biting realism
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