While Boston landmarks like the Old North Church still stand, the Liberty Tree, gone for nearly 250 years, has been lost to history
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The artwork, by famed artist Jacob Lawrence, captured the turning point in the Civil Rights Movement
The beauty of the national park became clear long before Ansel Adams
At least 250 Shoshone were killed by the Army in the 1863 incident, but their remains have yet to be found
A Smithsonian curator notes how a heavy dose of social activism prompted the U.S. Treasury to honor historic social and political movements
In honor of the coin’s 150th anniversary, read up on how the nickel came to be minted
When an award-winning science writer dug into the backstory of this New Haven institute, he found a world of scientific derring-do
Country music star Trace Adkins stops by the Smithsonian to examine some authentic sheet music from the Civil War.
Curator Nancy Bercaw from the African American History Museum discusses the freedom fighter's ongoing legacy
The congresswoman tried to win the White House by consolidating the Black vote and the women's vote, but she ran into trouble
At 15, Minnijean Brown faced down the Arkansas National Guard, Now Her Story and Personal Items are Archived at the Smithsonian
The story behind the most famous betrayal in U.S. history shows the complicated politics of the nation's earliest days
Two new books offer divergent theories on the authorship of the much-heralded film
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Originally designed in the 1930s to restrict access to the drug, these stamps draw a curious crowd to the Postal Museum
Since the famous television spot ran in 1964, advertising agencies have sold presidential candidates as if they were cars or soap
Is the Republican party on the verge of catastrophe? Probably not, if history is any indicator
In a new book, a Smithsonian naturalist tells the gritty, controversial tale of how one of America’s presidents felled a threatened species
More than 400 images from the 1980s to the early 2000s detail the "standout moments" of the rise of Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Jay Z and many more artists
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