Smithsonian Magazine: January 2011
Features
Unearthing the Colosseum's Secrets
A German archaeologist has deciphered the great stadium's complex stagecraft. Its underground labyrinth has just opened to visitors
By Tom Mueller
Power and the Presidency
John F. Kennedy's inauguration, 50 years ago this month, led to a significant expansion of the commander in chief's role
By Robert Dallek
Feast for the Eyes
Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo paid tribute to the Hapsburg dynasty with surreal likenesses
By Abigail Tucker
A Plague of Pigs
Texans are battling a shockingly destructive invasive species
By John Morthland
Catching the Bamboo Train
Rural Cambodians cobbled old tank parts and scrap lumber into an ingenious way to get around
By Russ Juskalian
Devastating Beauty
A photographer goes aloft to make impassioned portraits of "industrial scars"
By Megan Gambino
The Trouble with Autobiography
When it comes to telling truths, the novelist prefers fiction
By Paul Theroux
Departments
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Flamingos, T. rex Tails, Burmese monkeys and more...
By Amanda Bensen, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino, Jess Righthand and Sarah Zielinski
Indelible Images
Cutthroat Capitalist
In 1903, photographer Edward Steichen portrayed captain of finance J.P. Morgan in an especially ruthless light
By Abigail Tucker
My Kind of Town
Hallowed Ground
The town's Civil War cemeteries depended a boy's view of history
By Ernest B. Furgurson
Around the Mall
At a Crossroads
Long influenced by nearby powers, Cyprus is reasserting its own identity
By Megan Gambino
The Object at Hand
Ready to Wear
In 1933, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh prepared for the worst before flying over the Arctic
By Owen Edwards
The Last Page
There Was an App for That
Software applications changed the course of history
By Bruce McCall
