Smithsonian Magazine: September 2008
Features
Victory at Sea
The world's largest protected area, established this year in the remote Pacific, points the way to restoring marine ecosystems
By Christopher Pala
Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing
Photographs and other historical records testify to the former abundance of the sea
By Laura Helmuth
Face the Nation
Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen A. Douglas for the U.S. Senate in 1858 turned the backwoods rail-splitter into presidential timber
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Lost & Found
Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
By Richard Covington
Four for a Quarter
Photographer Nakki Goranin shows how the once ubiquitous photobooth captured the many faces of 20th-century America
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Macau Hits the Jackpot
In just four years, this 11-square-mile outpost on the coast of China eclipsed Las Vegas as gambling's world capital
By David Devoss
Departments
Indelible Images
Day of the Iguanas
On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
By Lynell George
My Kind of Town
Northwest Passage
He arrived unsure of what to expect—but the prolific author quickly embraced Seattle's energizing diversity
By Charles Johnson
Digs
Washington's Boyhood Home
Archaeologists have finally pinpointed the Virginia house where our first president came of age
By David Zax
Presence of Mind
Clan-Do Spirit
A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
By Jake Halpern
Wild Things
Wild Things
Life As We Know It
By Amanda Bensen, Anika Gupta, T.A. Frail, Abigail Tucker and Sarah Zielinski
Around the Mall
Spirit of the Sea
Tlingit artisans craft a canoe that embodies their culture's oceangoing past
By Megan Gambino
The Object at Hand
True to Form
An exact replica represents a particular North Atlantic whale
By Owen Edwards
Q&A
Nancy Knowlton
The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian's effort to foster a greater public understanding of the world's oceans
By Beth Py-Lieberman
Around the Mall
Most Likely To
A quick guide to the standouts of the National Museum of Natural History's "Ocean Hall Class of 2008"
By Anika Gupta
The Last Page
The Bugs Who Flew Too Much
This invasion would have driven even Alfred Hitchcock psycho
By Rebecca Sicree
