Smithsonian Magazine: September 2005
Features
Back from the Brink
Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough laws, dedicated researchers, and plenty of money and effort, success stories abound
By Daniel Glick
Born into Bondage
Despite denials by government officials, slavery remains a way of life in the African nation of Niger
By Paul Raffaele
The Ambush That Changed History
An amateur archaeologist discovers the field where wily Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Lesson of a Lifetime
Her bold experiment to teach Iowa third graders about racial prejudice divided townspeople and thrust her onto the national stage. Decades later, Jane Elliott's students say the ordeal changed them for good
By Stephen G. Bloom
Jazz Man
Louis Armstrong before he was Satchmo? A youthful Ella? For photographs of musicians great or obscure, just about everyone turns to Frank Driggs
By Jerry Adler
Navigating Siberia
A 2,300-mile boat trip down the Lena River, one of the last great unspoiled waterways, is a journey into Russia's dark past—and perhaps its future as well
By Jeffrey Tayler
Departments
Indelible Images
Ties That Bind
At last, all parties were ready to make peace in the Middle East. Whoops ... Not So Fast
By John F. Harris
The Object at Hand
John Lennon's First Album
A recently acquired stamp collection opens a new page on the teenage Beatle-to-be
By Owen Edwards
Phenomena & Curiosities
Fuel for Thought
Cars that run on vegetable oil? Do-it-yourselfers and entrepreneurs alike fill 'er up with the nation's fastest-growing propellant
By Frances Cerra Whittelsey
Digs
The Best Offense
A buried Civil War battery in a Kentucky suburb tells of valiant men standing at the ready... and waiting... and waiting....
By Andrew Berg
Presence of Mind
On Not Naming Names
The reporter was given a choice: Identify his confidential sources or go to jail. He chose jail
By Myron Farber
From the Secretary
New Faces
Artists, emerging and renowned alike, will vie to display their works in the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens next July
By Lawrence M. Small, Secretary
Lewis and Clark
Cold and Hungry
When snow blankets the mountains, the expedition is once again imperiled
By Smithsonian magazine
