Editors' Picks
Where Was the Birthplace of the American Vacation?
First in rustic tents and later in elaborate resorts, city dwellers took to the Adirondacks to explore the joys of the wilderness
The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
Landscape Designer Margie Ruddick Brings a New Meaning to Green Design
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner Margie Ruddick talks about blending ecology and architecture in the first-ever permanent living indoor installation
May 17, 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
From a Las Vegas Denny's with a wedding chapel to rock 'n' roll posters, this year's design award winners have a good time with great design
May 09, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
For one reason or another, these lucky souls never boarded the doomed ship whose sinking launched America's involvement in WWI
May 02, 2013
| By Greg Daugherty
New archaeological evidence and forensic analysis reveals that a 14-year-old girl was cannibalized in desperation
May 01, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Corporate violence against union organizers might have gone unrecorded—if it not for an enterprising news photographer
April 30, 2013
| By Gilbert King
Smithsonian researchers used optical technology to play back the unplayable records
May 2013
| By Charlotte Gray
Nathaniel Philbrick takes on one of the Revolutionary War’s most famous and least understood battles
May 2013
| By Tony Horwitz
For a brief period in 1810, Florida was truly a country of its own
May 2013
| By William C. Davis
Gallery closings, fewer exhibitions and reduced educational offerings are some of the impacts he listed before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
April 17, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
From corporate donations to workplace restrictions, what’s taught in the classroom has always been influenced by American industry
April 15, 2013
| By Dana Goldstein
Explore the exam that has been stressing out college-bound high school students since 1926
April 12, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Baseball brought the two men together, but even when Rickey left the Brooklyn Dodgers, their relationship off the field would last for years
April 11, 2013
| By John Hanc
It would take a miracle to beat Craig Wood in 1935. Gene Sarazen provided one
April 11, 2013
| By Gilbert King
The lawman had a reputation to protect—but that reputation shifted after he moved East
April 03, 2013
| By Gilbert King
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, loyalist John Malcom was tarred, feathered and dragged through the streets, just for arguing with a young boy
April 01, 2013
| By Nathaniel Philbrick
Historian Tony Horwitz travels to the Civil War battlefield and finds that even where time is frozen, it’s undergone welcome changes
April 2013
| By Tony Horwitz
A new book from a Smithsonian curator looks at the culture and business of memorabilia
April 2013
| By Paul Bisceglio
First in rustic tents and later in elaborate resorts, city dwellers took to the Adirondacks to explore the joys of the wilderness
April 2013
| By Tony Perrottet
Before the legendary aircraft took flight, it took 25 hours to fly from New York to Los Angeles
April 2013
| By Kathleen Burke
It's supposedly the 50th anniversary of the original design of the iconic image, but its history since then is surprisingly complex with millions of dollars at stake
March 13, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia
March 12, 2013
| By Gilbert King
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning
March 01, 2013
| By Gilbert King
How one author adds actual blues and grays to historic photographs
February 22, 2013
| By Ryan R. Reed
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady.
February 21, 2013
| By Gilbert King
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
March 2013
| By Ron Rosenbaum
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