How did people a 100 years ago spend their free time outside? The Trade Literature Collection offers a few clues to some very recognizable pastimes
At the American History Museum, cover all the bases with Latino ballplayers
A tip of the cap to the nation’s crowning accessory
How the world’s handiest instrument took over American music
Decades after she painted this canvas, a new show reconsiders a misunderstood Swiss artist
Seen as "one giant leap for Native women, "Haaland (Laguna and Jemez Pueblos) is hailed for her experience, strength and wisdom
Williams wanted a different story for her daughter—and for herself. So, she set out to write it
The long-running project found a new online home, one that showcases the literary genre’s outsized impact on popular culture
In Charleston, South Carolina, Heron Farms is attempting to grow a gangly, salt-tolerant plant in the face of sea level rise
These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche
Virtually explore these groundbreaking designs around the world, from an Italian villa to an American castle
A new book from Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson offers an incisive portrait of the gene editing field that is changing modern medicine
From Mississippi Freedom Schools, to free speech rallies at UC Berkeley, and in the coffeehouses, her protest music took her everywhere
Strict gender norms pushed them out of a centuries-long tradition
The sagas suggest she settled in Newfoundland and eventually made eight crossings of the North Atlantic Sea
Multi-part courses, studio arts classes and virtual study tours produced by the world’s largest museum-based educational program
Opening soon in the storyteller's hometown of Odense, Denmark, the museum allows visitors to experience his multilayered stories
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives invites you to a series of four Adopt-a-Book Salons in March and April
The front lines of a terrible epidemic, through the eyes of a young doctor profoundly touched by tragedy
An unfinished Civil War memorial became an allegory for peace—and a scene of insurrection
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