These artifacts each tell a part of the African-American story
Is blues music a thing of the past? A festival in Memphis featuring musicians of all ages and nationalities shouts an upbeat answer
When millionaire John D. Rockefeller Jr. first visited Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1926, he vowed to preserve the awe-inspiring land
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is setting its sights on the future
Women have long fought against the assumption that they are weaker than men, and the battle isn’t over yet
Artists, historians and filmmakers alike have been guilty of creating a mythologized version of the U.S. expansion to the west
It’s a pretty scary story. It does involve clowns, after all
As many as 500,000 tule elk once roamed the coast of California, but they were hunted to extinction in the mid-1860s. Or so we thought...
Thanks to the one-two punch of racism and sexism, these two women were shut out of the hero’s treatment given to other athletes
As the shooter John Hinckley returns to life outside of imprisonment, it’s worth looking back at every thing the media got wrong that day
The simple act of civil disobedience, thrusting a black-gloved fist in the air, produced shock waves across the nation
A shoe-in for the first ever basketball game in the Olympics, Converse All Stars have a long history both in and out of sport
In 1898, the mayor of Los Angeles, Fred Eaton, came up with an audacious plan to drive up the value of local real estate
Years after all double eagles were supposedly destroyed, the Secret Service traces the reappearance of two of the rare coins back to a deal with a jeweler
The American History museum’s latest job opening made headlines. But what does the job actually entail?
A new book places a much-needed modern-day lens on the kidnapping that captivated the nation
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
For Smithsonian’s Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan, it’s trying to guess what people of the future will want to know about 2016
The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
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