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Pondering Presidential Portraits on Election Day

Watch “Around the Mall” bloggers discover where the 43rd presidential portrait will go in the Hall of Presidents

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What’s Up This Week Around the Mall

“Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian” is a major two-city exhibition with shows opening concurrently in Washington, D.C. and NY

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Doe (a Deer, a Female Deer) Born at the Zoo

An Eld’s Deer joins the National Zoo family

‘Women of Our Time’ at the Portrait Gallery

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery showcases the beauty of women in the twentieth century

Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton

The renowned coral reef biologist leads Smithsonian’s effort to foster a greater public understanding of the world’s oceans

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A New Exhibition Gets All The Dirt on Soil

I don’t know how dirt got its bad reputation. The word is a catch-all for every vile behavior humankind can muster…

A LEAGUE APART

It’s all about baseball on Sunday, June 1 from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K Street, NW, at Mount Vernon Square

Thomas Alva Edison by Alfred S. Seer Engraver; Copy after: Mathew B. Brady, Color woodcut poster, c. 1878

All in a Word

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