On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked
"America's Sweethearts" are as dedicated to social service as they are to the Dallas Cowboys
How filmmaker Alex Gibney brought a documentarian’s eye to the story of the 9/11 attacks
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy led a march through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
From the National Portrait Gallery to the Air and Space Museum, here’s where to find the stories of wondrous women come March
When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War
By 1965, the U.S. initiated a military deployment, Operation Rolling Thunder, to help South Vietnam defend its independence
During the Civil War, the jails that held the enslaved imprisoned Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community
In early 1898, the USS Maine sailed into Havana harbor as a show of support for the Cuban revolutionaries
A Smithsonian Channel film, "The Lost Tapes," challenges misconceptions about the charismatic leader
This wartime painting series reminded Americans what they were fighting for
Marking a 150-year anniversary and a promise kept to return the people to their ancestral home
He was among the most influential religious leaders in U.S. history, says Peter Manseau
One hundred years later, the campaign for the women’s vote has many potent similarities to the politics of today
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses
Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president
In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communistd
But there's a kernel of truth to many of them because Washington was a legend in his own time
For seven years an internee at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," Congressman Sam Johnson entrusts his story to the Smithsonian
Lyndon Johnson’s cantankerous nature carried over to even the more engaging parts of being Commander in Chief
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