American History
The True Story of Pocahontas Is More Complicated Than You Might Think
Historian Camilla Townsend separates fact from fiction in the life of the Powhatan "princess"
Eight Decades Ago, a Ship Vanished Into the Depths of Lake Superior. Why Did the Captain Remain Aboard?
The wreck of the S.S. Arlington has finally been found—but it provides no answers about Captain Frederick Burke's final moments
How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration
A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.
To Make Tiffany & Co. a Household Name, the Luxury Brand's Founder Cashed in on the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Craze
Charles Lewis Tiffany purchased the surplus cable from the 1858 venture, turning it into souvenirs that forever linked his name to the short-lived telecommunications milestone
What a Teacher's Letters Reveal About Robert Smalls, Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Secure His Freedom From Slavery
Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women
Inert Cold War-Era Missile Discovered in a Washington Man's Garage
A resident of Bellevue, Washington, attempted to donate the historic artifact to a museum, which alerted authorities
Abraham Lincoln's Oft-Overlooked Campaign to Promote Immigration to the U.S.
A few weeks after the president delivered the Gettysburg Address, he called on Congress to welcome immigrants as a "source of national wealth and strength"
This Peaceful Nature Sanctuary in Washington, D.C. Sits on the Ruins of a Plantation
Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed into a tribute to the nation's "conservation president," a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home there
See Long-Lost Artifacts From Early Black Cinema
Now open in Detroit, "Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971" showcases nearly 200 rare props, posters, photographs and more
Who Stole—and Burned—This Jackie Robinson Statue?
Donations poured in to help replace the bronze statue, which a youth baseball nonprofit unveiled in 2021
Newly Discovered Papers From President McKinley's Assassination Are for Sale
The archive belonged to Herman Matzinger, who performed the autopsy on the 25th president and conducted a bacteriological analysis to rule out the possibility of poison-tipped bullets
Thief Who Stole Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Avoids Prison
Terry Martin has been sentenced to one year of supervised release for swiping the iconic "Wizard of Oz" shoes from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005
Have Researchers Found Amelia Earhart's Long-Lost Plane?
A new sonar image shows an airplane-shaped object resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, not far from where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, went missing in 1937
The Real History Behind 'Masters of the Air' and the 100th Bomb Group
The long-awaited follow-up to "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" centers on an American aerial group nicknamed the "Bloody Hundredth"
Field Museum Covers Native American Displays to Comply With New Regulations
The federal rules require museums to obtain consent from tribal leaders before displaying or researching cultural heritage items
The Most Anticipated Museum Openings of 2024
Scheduled to launch this year are new institutions dedicated to astronomy, Nintendo and women artists
As Empires Clashed During World War I, a Global Media Industry Brought the Conflict's Horrors to the Public
An exhibition at LACMA traces the roots of modern media to the Great War, when propaganda mobilized the masses, and questions whether the brutal truths of the battlefield can ever really be communicated
A Brief History of the United States' Accents and Dialects
Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns
What Newly Digitized Records Reveal About the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease
Officials Reverse Plans to Remove William Penn Statue From a Philadelphia Park
The National Park Service had proposed replacing the statue with public resources showcasing the city's Native American history
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