Skip to main content

Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote.

Smithsonian Affiliations

01-DCMLK003-Cloud Club 1 at Coorm Pinkett_Brawner_J.Lunceford_John Green 1950.jpeg

Before Tuskegee, There Was Riverside Airfield

How Columbia Air Center became the first licensed Black-owned and operated airfield

Header for “Birds of a Feather” feature that profiled local aviatrixes in The Pittsburgh Press, March 13, 1932

Breaking Barriers and Soaring Into History: Pittsburgh's 'Three Helens' During the Golden Age of Aviation

They fought for their places in the sky and advanced aviation for generations of women

A black-and-white photograph of an African American male porter holding a suitcase while a white woman steps up into a rail car.

The Railroad Workers Behind the Civil Rights Movement

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working class and the fight for equal rights.

A boy in a long wool coat and hat holds a small case

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

A group of people sit in chairs at the History Center raising mini American flags during a Citizenship ceremony

The Time is Now for Tackling Historical Illiteracy and Creating a New Type of Civic Participation

The nation’s largest and most influential history museums collaborate in the new education effort “Made By Us”

Categories
Archive