100 Years of Women at the Ballot Box
Inez Milholland Boissevain's campaign to win the vote for women inspires a dramatic homage a century later
Recipe exchanges, poetry chains, photo challenges and other ostensibly comforting prompts are enjoying a resurgence amid the COVID-19 pandemic
In the wake of the Civil War, the government’s new force sought to enshrine equality under the law
Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants
In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'
Cities' geography can aid, underscore or discourage a movement's success
Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression
Control of the federal city was long dictated by Congress until residents took a stand beginning in the 1960s
The seminal work, a contemporary <em>Guernica</em>, is the first joint acquisition for the Hirshhorn and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In this endearing homage, poet-scholar drea brown finds ancestral and personal healing
Following Custer's defeat, tribal leaders made difficult decisions to ensure the safety of their people that continue today in the time of COVID-19
The nation's indigenous population has long been undercounted, but the pandemic presents extra hurdles
More than seventy-five years ago, the final great battle of WWII convinced Allied leaders to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Though he had no biological children, the first president acted as a father figure to Martha's descendants
Smithsonian curator Margaret Weitekamp reflects on the historic parallel between 2020 and 1969
Lena Richard was a successful New Orleans-based chef, educator, writer and entrepreneur
Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration of freedom was born
In this dynamic time, a list of film, podcasts and books is offered for a nation grappling with its fraught history
Tom Hanks' new World War II film offers a dramatized account of the Battle of the Atlantic
The murders in Duluth offered yet another example that the North was no exception when it came to anti-black violence
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