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An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career
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From our archives: How the republic’s troubled history set the stage for future discord and a possible new Cold War
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John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light
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Since the Smithsonian's earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential
Going where few cartographers have gone before, the expedition members hope to find a river that will carry them all the way to the Pacific Ocean
Rockefeller Center symbolizes the heart of Manhattan
The first shipment of botanical specimens sent to President Jefferson contained the seeds of thousands of miles of fences
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
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Defenders of honor or shoot-on-sight vigilantes? Even in 19th-century America, it was hard to tell
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Retracing the route of captured American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in World War II, the author grapples with their sacrifice
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William Clark—a better explorer than speller—tells his older brother of the impending transfer of the Louisiana Territory to the United States
Estate bequests by donors past and present keep the world's largest museum and research complex humming
In the 1900s, health officials believed that puncturing supposedly disease-infested mail and then fumigating it slowed the spread of illness
Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot
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As archaeologists unearth a secret slave passageway used by abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, scholars reevaluate his reputation and that of James Buchanan
A cache of recently discovered letters darkens the British naval warrior's honor and enhances that of his long-suffering wife, Frances
Priceless wisdom that changed my life
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Smithsonian's wide-ranging mummy collection still speaks to us from centuries past
Off and running in the new year
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