Books and DVDs make up our expert's gift guide of more ideas for this holiday season
In the year 2062, you really, really don't want to hit a ball out of bounds
Visit the futuristic town where drivers and non-drivers live in perfect harmony
The Great Pacificator was adept at getting congressmen to reach agreements over slavery. But he was less accommodating when one of his own slaves sued him
Richard Paul Pavlick’s plan wasn’t very complicated, but it took an eagle-eyed postal worker to prevent a tragedy
A kids' magazine in the '80s hoped that by now we'd have a whole new array of pets to choose from
Montague Jetson is 110 years old--and loving it
Anne Kelly Knowles, the winner of Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards, uses GIS technology to change our view of history
Visionary inventor Preston Tucker risked everything when he saw his 1948 automobile as a vehicle for change
The Secretary of the Smithsonian draws the connection between the Clovis tools and Silicon Valley
Don't touch that dial....really, don't
A working-class Londoner operated the most exclusive gambling club the world has ever seen
Never trust a robot co-worker
Read between the lines of the police report drawn up when the seamstress refused to give up her seat in 1955
Without benefit of medical training, Madame Restell spent 40 years as a "female physician"
Find out which famous writers didn't make the top ten in this poll
The rambunctious boy had free rein of the White House, and used it to divert a holiday bird from the butcher's block
The origin of Pabst's iconic blue ribbon dates back to one of the most important gatherings in American history
Kids of the 1960s were let in on the secret of how television is made.
Early filmmakers faced a dilemma: how to capture the drama of war without getting themselves killed in the process. Their solution: fake the footage
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