A black-and-white photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer carrying a sign and holding an umbrella over her head.

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for Voting Rights

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Smithsonian Books

Five Photographs That Reveal the Beauty of Airport Towers

Explore airports around the world through the eyes of a Smithsonian photographer

A headshot of Henry Winkler, shows a close-up the actor looking directly into the camera, his eyes twinkling above a broad, white smile.

Smithsonian Associates

An Evening With Henry Winkler and More Programs in October

Smithsonian Associates offers a variety of fascinating lectures and seminars, studio art classes, and study tours this month

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National Museum of Natural History

Fearsome Flies: Meet the Scientist Studying the Top Predators in the Insect World

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science

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Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Lee Miller's Legacy: From Fashion Model to War Correspondent

Lee Miller, who captured some of the most harrowing photographs of World War II, started as a model and Surrealist photographer. Learn about her life and legacy that has inspired a major motion picture.

A black-and-white photograph of seven women standing on a flight of stairs. Mae Reeves stands to the farthest right on the lowest step and wears a white hat and floral patterned handbag.

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Five Women to Know for American Business Women's Day

Learn about Mae Reeves, Anna Bissell, Estée Lauder, Maggie Walker, and Sara Sunshine—five women from Smithsonian collections who ran businesses and made history.

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Smithsonian Affiliations

A Teenager's Holocaust Diary Is Changing the Way We Interact With Online Exhibitions

When technology and storytelling converge, an online exhibition can create deeply immersive, accessible and educational experiences

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Smithsonian Books

How Decorated Initials Made Early Book Pages Pop

Read about the beautiful form and convenient function of one of books' most distinctive features

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National Museum of Natural History

Pawpaw-Palooza: The Inside Scoop on North America’s Taste of the Tropics

The strange plant is ingrained in American history and well-represented in the museum’s herbarium and gardens

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Smithsonian Affiliations

What Patent Models Can Tell Us About American History

How a museum dedicated to telling the story of industrial history became the steward of the largest private collection of patent models

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Smithsonian Education

The Power of a Teacher Who Dreams Big

In an interview with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Dr. Melissa Collins, a veteran elementary school teacher shares her wisdom and expertise in supporting students with access to STEM opportunities and helping them imagine new possibilities for themselves

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National Museum of American History

What's Happening in October: Food History Weekend and More!

Here's what's happening this month at the National Museum of American History

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National Museum of American History

To American Revolutionaries, Patriotism Meant Fair Dealing With One Another

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old.

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Smithsonian Books

How the Constitution Was Drafted With Hope and Compromise

A Smithsonian curator reflects on the document that was signed this week 237 years ago

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National Museum of Natural History

Fetching Fossils and Unwrapping Mannequins: Here’s What Happens When a Museum Exhibition Closes

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection

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Smithsonian Education

Creativity and Co-Creation Bring Local Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Histories to the Classroom

Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories in engaging new formats, telling stories from right in their own backyards

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National Museum of American History

Smithsonian Artifacts Reveal the Historical Significance of Presidential Debates

Bobbleheads, Magic 8 Balls, chairs and other artifacts in the Smithsonian reveal the historical significance of presidential debates.

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National Museum of Natural History

Across the Smithsonian, Researchers are Working Together to Save Virginia’s Birds

This National Virginia Day, learn how Smithsonian scientists are using historic collections and current conservation practices to bring back declining populations of grassland birds

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National Museum of Natural History

Searching for Earth's Oldest Rocks: Follow a Smithsonian Expedition to the Remote Northwest Territories

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the continents, oceans and life on Earth

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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Hot, Fresh & Flooded: These Wetlands Spew Out the Most Methane

Your local wetland could send hundreds of tons of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere every year. Or virtually none.