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A huge dam-removal project will reveal sacred Native American lands that have been flooded for a century
September 15, 2011
| By Abigail Tucker
Being Colombia’s most famous folk figure has its perks, even if you're an impersonator
September 02, 2011
| By Laura Kiniry
Author Rick Bass trades wilderness for city life, Montana style
August 2011
| By Rick Bass
A huge dam on Peru's Inambari River will bring much-needed development to the region. But at what cost?
March 2011
| By Clay Risen
From two of Oregon’s best chefs come two recipes to liven up your wild fungi
January 28, 2011
| By Smithsonian.com
In the forests of Oregon, foragers, farmers and chefs have their eyes stuck on the ground looking for one thing: wild mushrooms
January 27, 2011
| By Rachael Brown
Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?
February 2011
| By John McQuaid
A new exhibition explores thousands of years of artwork from the Native nations of North, Central and South America
January 04, 2011
| By Jess Righthand
Bill Owens was seeking a fresh take on suburban life when he spotted a plastic-rifle-toting boy named Richie Ferguson
October 2010
| By Owen Edwards
An innovative California facility offers hope to combatants with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries
September 2010
| By Robert M. Poole
Within weeks of January's devastating earthquake, Haiti's surviving painters and sculptors were taking solace from their work
September 2010
| By Bill Brubaker
A Smithsonian/Pew poll finds optimism about science and social progress despite worries about the environment and population growth
Experts predict the U.S. population will become increasingly diverse, with the greatest gains among Latinos.
Looking ahead to the next 40 years, President Obama writes about our nature as Americans to dream big and solve problems
August 2010
| By Barack Obama
The United States population will expand by 100 million over the next 40 years. Is this a reason to worry?
August 2010
| By Joel Kotkin
Filmmaker Chris Eyre says Native pride will embolden the next generation of first Americans
August 2010
| By Chris Eyre
A Texas cattleman used genetic science to breed his masterpiece – a near-perfect Red Angus bull. Then nature took its course
April 2010
| By Jeanne Marie Laskas
Baltimore's A. Aubrey Bodine cast a romantic light on the city's dockworkers in painterly photographs
April 2010
| By Abigail Tucker
The celebrated writer returns to the town of her birth to revisit the places that haunt her memory and her extraordinary fiction
March 2010
| By Joyce Carol Oates
Shelby Lee Adams' 1990 photograph of life in the eastern Kentucky mountains captured a poignant tradition
March 2010
| By Abigail Tucker
For more than half a century the Scurlock Studio chronicled the rise of Washington's black middle class
February 2010
| By David Zax
Carlos Perez could have been an artist or a gangster. Photographer Donna DeCesare helped him choose
February 2010
| By Patti McCracken
Wealthy businessman John Gussenhoven pledged his fortunes to assist those who helped him on his journey across America
December 18, 2009
| By Jamie Katz
A reporter follows the lucrative, illicit and heartrending trade in stolen wild animals deep into Ecuador's rain forest
December 2009
| By Charles Bergman
Novelist Tim O'Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown
November 2009
| By Tim O'Brien
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