Events
Momentous and notable cultural and historic occasions as well as holidays and celebrations
Interview with Thomas Allen Harris
Director of "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela"
September 01, 2006 |
By Lucinda Moore
Lost Over Laos
Scientists and soldiers combine forensics and archaeology to search for pilot Bat Masterson, one of 88,000 Americans missing in action from recent wars.
August 2006 |
By Robert M. Poole
Dirty Little Secret
To see the Revolutionary war through the eyes of slaves is to better understand why so many of them fought for the crown
May 2006 |
By Simon Schama
War and Remembrance
An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam
May 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Home Is the Sailor
One hundred years ago this month, John Paul Jones was welcomed home with great fanfare at the U.S. Naval Academy. But was the body really his?
April 2006 |
By Adam Goodheart
Grab a Drink With Hollywood's Stars
To photographer Slim Aarons, the biggest stars were auld acquaintances
January 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Christmas Cards
When orbiting pranksters Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford launched into "Jingle Bells," Mission Control almost lost control
December 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Iraq's Resilient Minority
Shaped by persecution, tribal strife and an unforgiving landscape, Iraq's Kurds have put their dream of independence on hold-for now
December 2005 |
By Andrew Cockburn
35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis
In Katrina's aftermath, the trumpeter has rallied support for his native New Orleans
November 01, 2005 |
By Tom Piazza
A Night at the Opera
Weegee's wartime snapshot was widely seen as social criticism, but it was, in fact, a farce
November 2005 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Ties That Bind
At last, all parties were ready to make peace in the Middle East. Whoops ... Not So Fast
September 2005 |
By John F. Harris
The Best Offense
A buried Civil War battery in a Kentucky suburb tells of valiant men standing at the ready... and waiting... and waiting....
September 2005 |
By Andrew Berg
It's Over
We asked readers to tell us where they were and how they reacted to the news that World War II had ended. And what a response we got!
August 2005 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Return to Da Lat
A veteran Vietnam correspondent revisits the romantic retreat where he, and so many others, sought respite from war in Indochina
August 2005 |
By Stanley Karnow
Preservation or Development at Morris Island?
On this site where the nation's legendary African-American fighting force proved its valor in the Civil War, a housing development ignited a debate over the uses of history
July 2005 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Boar War
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
June 2005 |
By Deborah Franklin
Contemplating Churchill
On the 40th anniversary of the wartime leader's death, historians are reassessing the complex figure who carried Britain through its darkest hour
March 2005 |
By Edward Rothstein
Coming Home
To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
January 2005 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
![As many as 150,000 slaves may have gained freedom (as depicted in 1863). "We will probably never know [the total]," says historian James O. Horton. "Part of the reason is that the underground was so successful: it kept its secrets well."](http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/200*345/free_main.jpg)
Free at Last
A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
December 2004 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Vilnius Remembers
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
December 2004 |
By Vijai Maheshawri
