Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and their friends traveled the country in Model Ts, creating the Great American road trip in the process
Long ignored by historians, the enslaved people of the White House are coming into focus through a new book by Jesse J. Holland
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: India
Aaliya Sultana Babi is doing everything in her power to protect and promote India's most significant fossil park
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: India
Born to a palace but stripped of his livelihood in the 1970s, Gaj Singh II created a new life dedicated to preserving royal Rajasthan
Even nomadic hunter-gatherers engaged in deliberate mass killings 10,000 years ago
The aircraft was a technological masterpiece, but at one ton of fuel per passenger, it had a devastating ecological footprint
Despite the "science fiction"-like technology deployed, 90 percent of ammunitions used in Desert Storm were actually “dumb weapons"
In 1955, Rainier III, the wealthy Prince of Monaco, knew he had to find a bride to extend his family's legacy
Swedish writer Ingrid Carlberg investigates the tragedy that befell the heroic humanitarian
The region was once home to a plethora of catlike creatures called nimravids, and fossils show they were an especially fractious breed
Distinctive cut marks on a Siberian mammoth represent the first known evidence of human hunters this far north
Emily Wilding Davison was a tireless and ingenious activist for the cause of women's suffrage in Britain
Thousands of years ago, humans were adding lead fumes and other pollutants to the air
A Smithsonian librarian highlights the precursor to today's gym enthusiasts
After the Civil War, one man decided there was money to be made in contacting the dead. So he invented a popular, occult board game that lives on today
From Winnie the Pooh's 90th birthday to the National Park Service's centennial, you won't want to miss out on these once-in-a-lifetime events
DNA analysis of the mummy's pathogens may reveal when and how Ötzi's people came to the Italian Alps
The story of "Rob Reed" is finally published, 150 years after his release
See shell casings from Bonnie and Clyde's final shoot out and John Dillinger's death mask in the Museum of the American Gangster's unusual collection
The famed actor and director celebrates the great outdoors of the United States in a new documentary
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